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expiate (v.)
c. 1600 (OED 2nd ed. print entry has a typographical error in the earliest date), from Latin
expiatus
, past participle of
expiare
"to make amends, atone for" (see
expiation
). Related:
Expiable
(1560s);
expiated
;
expiating
.
