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expiate(verb) To make amends or reparation for. Synonyms: aby, atoneUsage: I felt I had to expiate my sins by performing acts of penance.
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Daemon wrote:<script>add2all('wod')</script><a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/expiate" style="color:darkblue;font-size:larger;font-weight:bold">expiate</a><br><br>(verb) To make amends or reparation for. <b>Synonyms:</b> <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/aby">aby</a>, <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/atone">atone</a> <b>Usage:</b> I felt I had to expiate my sins by performing acts of penance. I felt sins are supposed to be washed away and not repaired. 
It is good to rub and polish your mind against that of others.—Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)
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I watch a good movie, Atonement. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATtSfe_DaJU
I am carrying my heart~I am carrying my rhythm~I am carrying my prayers~But you can't kill my spirit~It's soaring and strong (Paula Cole's Me Lyrics)***We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We ARE spirtual beings having a human experience.(T.deChardin)***There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. (Albert Einstein)
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Atiya, are you making reference to baptism?
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