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Expatriate vs Expiate - What's the difference?

expatriate | expiate |

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

Adjective

(-)
  • Of, or relating to, people who are expatriates.
  • * an expatriate mailing list
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who lives outside one’s own country.
  • One who has been banished from one’s own country.
  • Synonyms

    * * outland

    Derived terms

    * expat * rex-pat, rex-patriate

    See also

    * immigrant * emigrant

    Verb

    (expatriat)
  • 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.
  • expiate

    English

    Verb

  • (transitive, or, intransitive) To atone or make reparation for.
  • * Clarendon
  • The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury.
  • * 1888 , Leo XIII, "",
  • Thus those pious souls who expiate the remainder of their sins amidst such tortures will receive a special and opportune consolation,
  • * 1913 , ,
  • I am going out to expiate a great wrong, Paul. A very necessary feature of the expiation is the marksmanship of my opponent.
  • To make amends or pay the penalty for.
  • * 1876 , ,
  • He had only to live and expiate in solitude the crimes which he had committed.
  • (obsolete) To relieve or cleanse of guilt.
  • * 1829 , , Larcher's Notes on Herodotus , vol. 2, p. 195,
  • and Epimenides was brought from Crete to expiate the city.
  • To purify with sacred rites.
  • * Bible, Deuteronomy xviii. 10 (Douay version)
  • Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire.

    Usage notes

    Intransitive use, constructed with (for) (like (atone)), is obsolete in Christian usage, but fairly common in informal discussions of Islam.