expiation
- n compensation for a wrong
- n the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity)
- He may never have found that expiation; he lived his last years alone on remote Faro island, speaking only rarely with his old friends and colleagues.
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- Even as Southern gentlemen have been time and again aroused to the hanging, burning and mutilation of human flesh in expiation for the black ravishment of their white women, so .