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Definition of Expiated
1. expiate [v] - See also: expiate
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Literary usage of Expiated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... his return by some criminal compliances ; and afterward expiated his guilt by
a seasonable repentance. Persuasion and violence were employed to extort ..."
2. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"France expiated by the devastation of an entire province a coarse and clumsy play
upon "corpse" and "corpulence" made by the French king in derision of ..."
3. Auld Lang Syne by Friedrich Max Müller (1898)
"And if she was, had she not expiated her sin and been purified by the most awful
suffering ? She looked so pure and innocent that Heine's lines were ..."
4. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850)
"... AND expiated. we expound the divine laws to our own purposes of ease and
ambition, we give to our sins gentle censures, and adorn them with good words, ..."
5. The Household Book of Poetry by Charles Anderson Dana (1873)
"... more expiated. I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet little saw
Of what had else been seen— Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in ..."
6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... his return by some criminal compliances ; and afterward expiated his guilt by
a seasonable repentance. Persuasion and violence were employed to extort ..."
7. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"France expiated by the devastation of an entire province a coarse and clumsy play
upon "corpse" and "corpulence" made by the French king in derision of ..."
8. Auld Lang Syne by Friedrich Max Müller (1898)
"And if she was, had she not expiated her sin and been purified by the most awful
suffering ? She looked so pure and innocent that Heine's lines were ..."
9. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850)
"... AND expiated. we expound the divine laws to our own purposes of ease and
ambition, we give to our sins gentle censures, and adorn them with good words, ..."
10. The Household Book of Poetry by Charles Anderson Dana (1873)
"... more expiated. I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet little saw
Of what had else been seen— Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in ..."
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