Expatriate vs Expiate - What's the difference?
expatriate | expiate |
Of, or relating to, people who are expatriates.
* an expatriate mailing list
One who lives outside one’s own country.
One who has been banished from one’s own country.
To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
To withdraw from one’s native country.
To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country.
(transitive, or, intransitive) To atone or make reparation for.
* Clarendon
* 1888 , Leo XIII, "",
* 1913 , ,
To make amends or pay the penalty for.
* 1876 , ,
(obsolete) To relieve or cleanse of guilt.
* 1829 , , Larcher's Notes on Herodotus , vol. 2,
To purify with sacred rites.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xviii. 10 (Douay version)
In transitive terms the difference between expatriate and expiate
is that expatriate is to banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of while expiate is to make amends or pay the penalty for.As an adjective expatriate
is of, or relating to, people who are expatriates.As a noun expatriate
is one who lives outside one’s own country.expatriate
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(wikipedia expatriate)Adjective
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(en noun)Synonyms
* * outlandDerived terms
* expat * rex-pat, rex-patriateSee also
* immigrant * emigrantVerb
(expatriat)expiate
English
Verb
- The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury.
- Thus those pious souls who expiate the remainder of their sins amidst such tortures will receive a special and opportune consolation,
- I am going out to expiate a great wrong, Paul. A very necessary feature of the expiation is the marksmanship of my opponent.
- He had only to live and expiate in solitude the crimes which he had committed.
p. 195,
- and Epimenides was brought from Crete to expiate the city.
- Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire.
