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expiations

n. (plural of expiation English)

Usage examples of "expiations".

Conceiving his pleasures to be crimes, his sufferings expiations, he endeavored to love pain, and to abjure the love of self.

Near him, the Siamese, with his eyebrows shaved, and a talipat screen*** in his hand, recommends alms, offerings, and expiations, at the same time that he preaches blind necessity and inexorable fate.

It is, that as the public doctrine recommends offerings, expiations, endowments, etc.

Tchernoff’s socialism and nationality brought vividly to his mind a series of feverish images — bombs, daggers, stabbings, deserved expiations on the gallows, and exile to Siberia.