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expiation

/ek-spee-ey-shuhn/US // ˌɛk spiˈeɪ ʃən //UK // (ˌɛkspɪˈeɪʃən) //

赎罪,补偿,赔偿,赔偿金

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of expiating.
    • : the means by which atonement or reparation is made.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inrecompense

Examples

  • But law is, at best, an imperfect instrument of grief and expiation.

  • Even the priests of the false gods, aghast with horror at his crimes, exclaimed, There is no expiation for deeds like these.

  • I felt a secret assurance that he was no longer in a place of expiation, though I ceased not to pray for him.

  • It was a hard struggle for Luther to give up the ideas of the Middle Ages in reference to self-expiation.

  • The church taught that the world was evil, life here an expiation, heaven the soul's true home.

  • The poem entitled The Outcast expresses this feeling of mysterious remorse and unending and unavailing expiation.