an impression forced itself upon me of being on the scene of some unexpiated crime

To my surprise, he answers his own question, “It’s for expiation of guilt [...]"

To expiate the burden

in expiatory sacrifice

If I’d meant my little courier run as another crumb of expiation, I’d failed. If I’d meant my service here on the island as a larger penance, that, too, had fallen short.

For days Nino continued to behave as if writing better than him was a sin that had to be expiated

had shot demonstrators, and had spent the night gathered in their barracks in a long session of self-recrimination. Now its men confronted their captain, Lashkevitch, and declared expiatory mutiny. They would not, they told him, shoot again

it gave him an opportunity to expiate his guilt

remained behind to expiate the country's collective guilt

what he curses in his mission is this expiation of expiation itself

the pearl necklace which he had presented to his wife on his return was as magnificent as such expiatory offerings are apt to be

The sole expiation I can make is to beg your forgiveness

In expiation for his pusillanimity in the opening reel

his passionate and expiatory nature

So many sins from his past accumulated – so many, in fact, that it was impossible to shrug them off or expiate them now – that even to ask for pardon was ridiculous.

And that it isn’t just expiation, but . . . that’s why it is crucial, because this is the only way we can know ourselves to be real, is this moral action, you understand don’t you, the only way to know others are real

The sermons thundered at them from the pulpit of their peaceful church increased in violence, and embraced expiatory petitions to the Lord their God less and less frequently

if mythic violence brings at once guilt and retribution, divine power only expiates