Expiate vs Apologise - What's the difference?
expiate | apologise |
(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)
(British spelling)
As verbs the difference between expiate and apologise
is that expiate is to atone or make reparation for while apologise is alternative form of lang=en.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.
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- 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.