S vs Expiate - What's the difference?
s | expiate |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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(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)
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a verb expiate is
(transitive|or|intransitive) to atone or make reparation for.s
Translingual
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Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }}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.