Definition of "expiations" [expiations]

• Plural form of expiation. (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "She never read the books she owed to these twinges; it was thus that she got her aversion to Thackeray -- one of his "expiations" was a set of Thackeray."
• "And thank god for that, because books of ex-communists 'expiations run to the superficial, egomaniacal and infantile stinky."
• "Zosimus and Sozomen pretend that, the heathen priests having told him that there were no expiations for such great crimes, he then made open profession of Christianity, and demolished many temples in the East."