(v. t.) To extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent; to make complete satisfaction for; to atone for; to make amends for; to make expiation for; as, to expiate a crime, a guilt, or sin.
(v. t.) To purify with sacred rites.
(a.) Terminated.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Punishment is legitimate and expiation is probably good, but that isn't the end of the story.
(2) He had wanted to expiate the ghost of past losses, in particular banishing the spectre of Neil Kinnock’s unexpected defeat in 1992.
(3) Like The Guard, Calvary is tartly, tightly scripted; unlike it, it's a pious piece of work, a serious investigation of expiation.
(4) Seeing old Kuhn, a religious man, praying aloud and thanking God he has been spared selection for the gas chamber, Levi is furious that Kuhn does not realise it will be his turn next, that "what has happened today is an abomination, which no propitiatory power, no pardon, no expiation by the guilty, which nothing at all in the power of man can ever clean again … If I was God, I would spit at Kuhn's prayer."
(5) In her own history there is a sin that is expiated or atoned for symbolically by the sacrifice of the child--explainable in terms of the theory of opponent-process learning.
(6) As these fantasies are compromise formations, the analytic method can detect motives from all their component elements, that is to say various instinctual gratifications, defenses against anxiety, depressive affect or both, and superego contributions, whose motives may be said to be punishment, expiation or undoing.
(7) The termination of his political career was long overdue and fully deserved; yet even now his former supporters, up to and including William Hague, seek to expiate their own guilt by piling on the opprobium.
(8) A blasphemy, too, even to think of pardon or expiation.
(9) They, or many of them, also believe the academic-intellectual lie that America’s inherently racist and evil nature can be expiated only through ever greater ‘diversity.’ The junta of course craves cheaper and more docile labor.
(10) The crime against Saudi law which he is supposed to expiate is simply that he ran a website called, with dreadful irony, Free Saudi Liberals.
Recompense
Definition:
(v. t.) To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate.
(v. t.) To return an equivalent for; to give compensation for; to atone for; to pay for.
(v. t.) To give in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.
(v. i.) To give recompense; to make amends or requital.
(n.) An equivalent returned for anything done, suffered, or given; compensation; requital; suitable return.
Example Sentences:
(1) He had raised the possibility of calling witnesses to testify "if it really is the case that legitimate lobbyists could be paid 30% of the value of a $40m contract simply as recompense for their time and trouble".
(2) In 1952-61 44 cases of lung cancer were reported in conjunction with radioactive substances, in 1962-85 already 1511 patients were recompensated.
(3) Coagulation-analysis control of the development shows clearly that shock treatment and maintenance of adequate circulation, starting at the earliest possible moment at the scene of the accident, are important for spontaneous recompensation of the hemostatic defect.
(4) Key findings included the following: 1) for a least 40% of outpatient schizophrenics, drugs seem to be essential for survival in the community; 2) the majority of patients who relapse after drug withdrawal recompensate fairly rapidly upon reinstitution of antipsychotic drug therapy; 3) placebo survivors seem to function as well as drug survivors--thus the benefit of maintenance drug therapy appears to be prevention of relapse; and 4) some cases of early relapse after drug withdrawal may be due to dyskinesia rather than psychotic decompensation.
(5) Doctors were happy with the deal, seeing a pay freeze as adequate recompense for the government backing away from patient choice.
(6) Preliminary loop cutaneous ureterostomy diversion allowed adequate ureteral recompensation such that ureteral tapering was unnecessary in any of these cases.
(7) The international community agreed to examine options for a mechanism for poor countries to seek recompense.
(8) Whichever way the matter is eventually settled, Johnson feels those involved in the England 2018 campaign are in effect fraud victims and should be recompensed for what has proved a considerable waste of time and money, effort and energy.
(9) It’s not just recompense for Benn’s historic defeat, but one better.
(10) Coad, representing Edmonds, said: “Noel has waited 10 years to see justice done after his business empire was brought down by Mr Dobson’s fraud, and if the Lloyds review process does not provide the recompense due to Noel, then all the necessary ordinance, including litigation funding, is in place to start legal proceedings.” Lloyds said the £100m compensation pot could be increased if necessary.
(11) A spokesman for the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS foundation trust said: “During the same period, NHS activity at the trust has increased by 25%; but this has been insufficiently funded under the current NHS tariff system, which is widely recognised as not recompensing highly complex work.
(12) It was agreed that the Obama administration would pay Tehran $1.7bn to recompense Iran for an aborted arms deal drawn up before the 1979 Islamic revolution.
(13) Recompensation, possibly through the use of another person as a transitional object, was noted during the illness.
(14) While this principle – that victims can seek recompense from those who have harmed them — is central to the law of most countries, it remains a politically contentious topic in the international context of climate change.
(15) I didn't buy the State of Israel being the recompense for the murder of European Jewry, recompense not being quite the right word, of course.
(16) This paper discusses the application of basic theories of family functioning to understanding the syndrome consisting of abnormal-illness behaviour centred around a recompensable illness or injury.
(17) A report is given on a patient with ischaemic heart disease, whose recompensation in tachyarrhythmia absoluta was for some times possible only by means of unusually high doses of digitoxin (fully effective dose to 5.72 mg, maintenance dose to 0.4 mg).
(18) China agreed to waive all claims for compensation - instead of haggling over its population's right for recompense, Beijing settled for new bridges, dams and airports.
(19) The Guardian columnist George Monbiot has reached what he called an "unprecedented" libel settlement with Lord McAlpine , pledging to carry out three years of charity work as recompense for Twitter messages that wrongly linked the former Conservative chairman with an allegation of child sex abuse.
(20) "Good conduct" showed a slight decrease as the challenging character of recompense grew smaller, but was still above the initial level.