Definition of "expiating" [expiating]

• Present participle of expiate. (verb)

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• "To conclude: from superstition our fathers retired for longer or shorter periods from the difs - tractions and entertainments of the world, and passed those intervals in the silence and solitude of monastic life, in the practice of a ngoPDUS discipliiie; in the notion of expiating their neg - ligences, their offences, their total forgetfulness of God m the daily course of ordinary life, and thus in the compass of a few days to do that for God and heaven, which ought to have been the scope and tendency of their whole lives."
• "Far from being altruistic, this little question is really about expiating that guilt. entropyred"
• "Even if he didn't as a foundation statement has claimed, solar appears to have been Mr. Kaiser's way of expiating his carbon sins."