Thursday 23 May 2013

Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Expiation

ex-pi-a-tion



noun :: The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty.



"It seemed to him that it was all in expiation of some crime which, though conscious of his guilt, he could not rightly remember." -- Bierce, Ambrose

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