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expiations

expiations is the plural of expiation.

Meaning of expiation

Noun

expiation (countable and uncountable, plural expiations)

  1. An act of atonement for a sin or wrongdoing.
    • One day he came not: I was told, and truly, that business the most imperative required his personal attendance; yet I could not force the ghastly terror of his illness from my mind. I dared not tempt my fate by content—the agony which I suffered seemed a sort of expiation.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 193
  2. (obsolete) The act of expiating or stripping off.
    • expiation of his immanities fore.1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson...
    Synonyms:
    plunder, pillage

Questions about expiations

What is expiations the plural of?
Expiations is the plural of expiation.

Words near expiations in the dictionary

  1. expiatest
  2. expiateth
  3. expiating
  4. expiation
  5. expiational
  6. expiations
  7. expiative
  8. expiator
  9. expiators
  10. expiatory
  11. expidite

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