expiation

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An act of atonement for a sin or wrongdoing.

   “One day he came not: I was told, and truly, that business the most imperative required his personal attendance; yet I could not force the ghastly terror of his illness from my mind. I dared not tempt my fate by content—the agony which I suffered seemed a sort of expiation.”

2. isim The act of expiating or stripping off.

   “expiation of his immanities fore.”