Associations to the word «Expiation»

Wiktionary

EXPIATION, noun. An act of atonement for a sin or wrongdoing.
EXPIATION, noun. (obsolete) The act of expiating or stripping off; plunder; pillage.

Dictionary definition

EXPIATION, noun. Compensation for a wrong; "we were unable to get satisfaction from the local store".
EXPIATION, noun. The act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats