Word For The Day, Monday, November 3, 2014-- expiate

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Word For The Day, Monday, November 3, 2014-- expiate

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

expiate [ek-spee-eyt]

hear it pronounced

verb, transitive (used with object), expiated, expiating

1. to atone for; make amends or reparation for: to expiate one's crimes.

Origin: 1585-95; < Latin expiātus (past participle of expiāre to atone for, make good), equivalent to ex- ex-1 + piā(re) to propitiate (see pious) + -tus past participle suffix

Related forms

expiation, noun
expiator, noun
unexpiated, adjective

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.

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[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Tomorrow, we will find out if conservatives will expiate their collective sin of staying home in 2012 and thereby allowing the Obama disaster to continue. A takeover of the Senate will not rid us of the curse, but it will help to keep it somewhat under control.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Good morning! Subbing for xsmommy today. Let’s see some homework, please.

[tioga]

Morning. Leaving Indiana for Chicago. We meet the doctors this morning. Pray for us. Will turn in homework later, if I can get WiFi.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Good luck at the doctor. Don't worry about the homework. :)

[Robert A Cook PE]

I wonder if Obola expiates a democrat victory tomorrow .... Or will he be spitting mad and walk out slamming the door as he curses white, Christian republicans? Again.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A+

I do not think that word means what you think it means.--Inigo Montoya

[Honorary Serb]

“Gay” activists feel no need to expiate their evil in destroying our civilization. Neither do their enablers, like obama, Hillary, and Samantha World Power!

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A++

Well said.

[afraidfortherepublic]

A Federal employee (union?) has got some expiating to do!

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A++
Good article. The perp should get 5-10 years to expiate his sins, but with Holder’s Dept. of inJustice, he’ll probably get a raise.

[secret garden]

He and Holder will never expiate the damage they have inflicted on this country.

[secret garden]

Meanwhile, they are threatening us...

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A++

“There’s a sense that ‘I’ve tried everything, and look where it got me.’”

Everything but capitalism.

[hobbes1]

To expiate for constant truancy, my homewurk cums from Harvard....

SMH...

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A++
Just when I thought we’d HIT BOTTOM...

[hobbes1]

IF I read the Tail end of the article correctly Spanking my be upcoming...lol

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

I will be away for a few hours. I promise to grade papers that come in during that interval.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Hopefully that is a criminal act that can be prosecuted, but since he is union he will probably be allowed to retire with benefits

[mikrofon]

Instead of a new-fangled Windows 10, longtime O/S “comfort users” would rather have seen Microsoft XP8 ...

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A+++ for XP8. LOL!