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295. Expiate - Formal English Vocabulary - Expiate / Expiation

by 정이로운 잉여생활 2022. 10. 10.
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Expiate : 속죄하다

Expiation : 속죄, (죄를 사회봉사등) 선행으로 갚음, 보상

 

to show that you're sorry because you've done bad by doing something to make up for it

the youth had been convicted of vandalism to pulbic property so to expiate for this wrongdoing he was made to do a hundred of hours of community service maybe picking up litter or helping old people

 

expiation either you take your punishment or you do something to make up for it and to atone for it 

this is an act to compensate for it to make up for it to say that you're sorry

to make amends and reparations for it

to expiate your sins to redeem yourself

repentance sinners seeking to expiate their the things that they've done wrong to redress to make things right again 

 

expiation called another word propitiation. both are probably the same with littel subtle difference

expiation is something to make up for what you've done wrong

propitiation is something to make up for something you've done wrong but with the added idea that you want to calm the person down, to appease their anger

 

to pay the penalty for something to suffer for it 

in ice hockey expiation normally involves sitting in the box two minutes

to make amends for something

to atone for it

to make up for it

to compensate for

to expiate one's crime 

to expiate for doing something

 

 

Formality : 7

 

 

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