(n.) The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty.
(n.) The means by which reparation or atonement for crimes or sins is made; an expiatory sacrifice or offering; an atonement.
(n.) An act by which the treats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen.
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.
Wrongdoing
Definition:
(n.) Evil or wicked behavior or action.
Example Sentences:
(1) On 18 March 1996, the force agreed, without admitting any wrongdoing by any officer, to pay Tomkins £40,000 compensation, and £70,000 for his legal costs.
(2) On the one hand, putting past wrongdoing behind it helps a company to move on.
(3) The FSA, which was going to be given oversight of hedge funds, will instead be able to demand cooperation from them and from other financial firms it does not regulation during investigations into wrongdoing.
(4) Those wrongdoings taint a whole industry beyond the handful of people and that makes it a huge problem."
(5) Sarkozy, who lost his immunity from prosecution when he failed to secure a second term in office in May, has denied any wrongdoing.
(6) Yentob was eventually cleared of any wrongdoing in October 2004, following an investigation by then BBC chief operating office John Smith.
(7) FBI director: new Hillary Clinton emails show no criminal wrongdoing Read more “Here in Minnesota, you’ve seen first-hand the problems caused with faulty refugee vetting, with very large numbers of Somali refugees coming into your state without your knowledge, without your support or approval,” the Republican nominee told a rally in the solidly Democratic state, two days before the presidential election.
(8) the charge, saying that the Bank simply had "no evidence of wrongdoing" in 2008.
(9) Brandis said nothing in the bill would stop Asio whistleblowers from reporting suspected wrongdoing to the inspector general of intelligence and security.
(10) • Crone and the former NoW editor Colin Myler "misled the committee by answering questions falsely about their knowledge of evidence that other News of the World employees had been involved in phone-hacking and other wrongdoing".
(11) There are allegations of very, very serious dereliction of duty and of wrongdoing by people in the police at the time who were investigating – it is alleged – some of the most grotesque crimes imaginable.” According to Newsnight, the officers involved said they did not know the senior figure who threatened them.
(12) To have a blanket rule of pre-notification really concerns me in terms of the crucial importance for journalists to go out there and investigate wrongdoing," he said.
(13) The standards committee report by a cross-party group of MPs said it "deplored" stings but would "not hesitate to act in such cases if wrongdoing had occurred".
(14) The Senate’s economic references committee accused Asic of missing or ignoring persistent signs of wrongdoing , characterising it as a “timid, hesitant regulator” that was too ready to uncritically accept assurances of a large institution that there were no grounds for intervention.
(15) We encourage people to speak up if they have concerns" #gsk July 24, 2013 12.29pm BST Witty says this investigation is "quite different" to the whistleblower claims the company recently investigated and found no evidence of wrongdoing.
(16) He told the chair, Alexis Jay: “We will never be able to undo the wrongdoing to these children.
(17) As the dust settles and the truth comes out, it’s become totally clear that the only people who engaged in wrongdoing are the criminals behind this fraud, and we’re glad they’re being held accountable.
(18) After international pressure, Sri Lanka conducted its own review of the war that essentially cleared government forces of wrongdoing although it did highlight evidence of possible military abuses that warranted further investigation.
(19) Hastie has been cleared of any wrongdoing in that incident by the ADF.
(20) Moreover, the state-controlled Chinese media have in a series of broadcasts denounced a number of detained “suspects” as members of a crime syndicate engaging in “rights-defence-style troublemaking”, and paraded some of those detained “confessing” to wrongdoing before they have even been publicly indicted.