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Expiate vs Foist - What's the difference?

expiate | foist |

In lang=en terms the difference between expiate and foist

is that expiate is to make amends or pay the penalty for while foist is to pass off as genuine or worthy.

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between expiate and foist

is that expiate is (obsolete) to relieve or cleanse of guilt while foist is (obsolete) a light and fast-sailing ship.

As verbs the difference between expiate and foist

is that expiate is (transitive|or|intransitive) to atone or make reparation for while foist is to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant.

As a noun foist is

a thief or pickpocket or foist can be (obsolete) a light and fast-sailing ship.

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    Intransitive use, constructed with (for) (like (atone)), is obsolete in Christian usage, but fairly common in informal discussions of Islam.

    Related terms

    * expiation * expiator * expiatory ----

    foist

    English

    Etymology 1

    Probably from obsolete (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant.
  • * 2006 — , The Gift of Language
    • attempts to foist alleged grammatical “correctness” on native speakers of an “incorrect” dialect are nothing but the unacknowledged and oppressive exercise of social control
  • * {{quote-book, passage=the Tale of Zayn al-Asnám is one of two which Galland repudiated, as having been foisted into his 8th volume without his knowledge
    • , author=William Alexander Clouston , title= , year=}}
  • To force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit.
  • To pass off as genuine or worthy.
  • * (rfdate) Jonathan Spivak — foist costly and valueless products on the public
    • Synonyms
    * fob off * pass off * pawn off * palm off

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thief or pickpocket.
  • * 1977 , Gãmini Salgãdo, The Elizabethan Underworld , Folio Society 2006, p. 54:
    • The foist had lately arrived form the country and was known to be doing a thriving trade in and around Westminster Hall where many country folk and others came to see lawyers.

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A light and fast-sailing ship.
    • (Beaumont and Fletcher)
    (Webster 1913) English transitive verbs