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Expiation is the act of making a wrong right in that deep, serious way: the punishment you accept, the hard good you do, the paying-back that is meant to answer a sin or a harm. Writers talk of an act of expiation, or of seeking expiation. Like the verb, it is formal and often religious. Everyday English says sorry, make up for it, or pay for it. Expiation is the old, heavy name for that paying. You will meet it in books and sermons more than in chat.
贖罪（的行為／過程）
組成From Middle French expiation, from Latin expiātiō(n) (“satisfaction”).
同家族的字
- expiatethe verb this noun is built from
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
expiationnoun/ɛkspiˈeɪʃən/
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An act of atonement for a sin or wrongdoing.
- One day he came not: I was told, and truly, that business the most imperative required his personal attendance; yet I could not force the ghastly terror of his illness from my mind. I dared not tempt my fate by content—the agony which I suffered seemed a sort of expiation.
- Under this plea, felons of the worst kind might claim, till this time, to be taken out of the hands of the law judges, and to be tried at the bishops’ tribunals; and at these tribunals, such a monstrous solecism had Catholicism become, the payment of money was ever welcomed as the ready expiation of crime.
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obsoleteThe act of expiating or stripping off.
- expiation of his immanities fore.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。