0 to show that you are sorry for bad behaviour by doing something or accepting punishment: --
He believes that in his willingness to suffer the penalty of the crime which he has committed he has expiated that crime.
No one whose opinion is worth considering ought as a matter of moral necessity to expiate his wrong by suffering.
In that way they feel that they expiate any pangs of conscience that they may suffer for enjoying an extremely comfortable life.
Even the felon may expiate his crime and become a reformed individual.
I am here to expiate my own sin of not paying the necessary attention.
What does he mean by the words "loyally expiate their sentences"?
We need to find some way of allowing people to expiate the acts that they have committed.
It is because they believe honestly that an erring people must expiate, and therefore interest rates must rise.
