expiate

expiate

1. sovittaa (tekonsa; syntinsä)

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expiate

oikaista, hyvittää, korjata, maksaa, sovittaa.

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Englannin sanakirja

expiate (englanti > suomi)

1. sovittaa

2. sovittaa, hyvittää

3. antaa synninpäästö

expiate englanniksi

1. puhekieltä To atone or make reparation for.

2. Clarendon

The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury.

3. 1888, Leo XIII, "s:Quod Anniversarius|Quod Anniversarius",

Thus those pious souls who expiate the remainder of their sins amidst such tortures will receive a special and opportune consolation, (..)

4. 1913, w:Edgar Rice Burroughs|Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, s:The_Return_of_Tarzan/Chapter_VI Chapter VI,

I am going out to expiate a great wrong, Paul. A very necessary feature of the expiation is the marksmanship of my opponent.

5. puhekieltä To make amends or pay the penalty for.

6. 1876, w:Jules Verne|Jules Verne, translated by Stephen W. White, w:The Mysterious Island|The Mysterious Island, part 2, s:The_Mysterious_Island/Part_2/Chapter_17 chapter 17,

He had only to live and expiate in solitude the crimes which he had committed.

7. puhekieltä To relieve or cleanse of guilt.

8. 1829, w:Pierre Henri Larcher|Pierre Henri Larcher, Larchers Notes on Herodotus'', vol. 2, http://books.google.ca/books?id=2EDOOUio040C&pg=PA195&vq=expiate p. 195,

(..) and Epimenides was brought from Crete to expiate the city.

9. To purify with sacred rites.

10. Bible, Deuteronomy xviii. 10 (Douay version)

Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire.

11. (inflection of)

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