All expiation synonyms

noun expiation

• remorseful — full of remorse.
• sackcloth and ashes — a public display of extreme grief, remorse, or repentance
• cleansing — serving or intended to cleanse
• distillation — the volatilization or evaporation and subsequent condensation of a liquid, as when water is boiled in a retort and the steam is condensed in a cool receiver.
• ablution — the ritual washing of a priest's hands or of sacred vessels
• baptism — A baptism is a Christian ceremony in which a person is baptized. Compare christening.
• bathing — swimming
• catharsis — Catharsis is getting rid of unhappy memories or strong emotions such as anger or sadness by expressing them in some way.
• disinfection — to cleanse (rooms, wounds, clothing, etc.) of infection; destroy disease germs in.
• unexpurgated — to amend by removing words, passages, etc., deemed offensive or objectionable: Most children read an expurgated version of Grimms' fairy tales.
• grace — William Russell, 1832–1904, U.S. financier and shipping magnate, born in Ireland: mayor of New York City 1880–88.
• lavation — the process of washing.
• purge — to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
• rarefaction — the act or process of rarefying.
• rebirth — a new or second birth: the rebirth of the soul.
• refinement — fineness or elegance of feeling, taste, manners, language, etc.
• regeneration — act of regenerating; state of being regenerated.
• salvation — the act of saving or protecting from harm, risk, loss, destruction, etc.
• sanctification — to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
• washing — the act or process of washing with water or other liquid: to give the car a wash.
• depuration — The action or process of freeing something of impurities.
• laving — to wash; bathe.
• lustration — to purify by a propitiatory offering or other ceremonial method.
• bribe — A bribe is a sum of money or something valuable that one person offers or gives to another in order to persuade him or her to do something.
• deliverance — Deliverance is rescue from imprisonment, danger, or evil.
• payoff — the payment of a salary, debt, wager, etc.
• price — Bruce, 1845–1903, U.S. architect.
• release — to lease again.
• rescue — to free or deliver from confinement, violence, danger, or evil.
• cue — In the theatre or in a musical performance, a performer's cue is something another performer says or does that is a signal for them to begin speaking, playing, or doing something.
• damages — money to be paid as compensation to a person for injury, loss, etc
• emolument — A salary, fee, or profit from employment or office.
• gravy — the fat and juices that drip from cooking meat, often thickened, seasoned, flavored, etc., and used as a sauce for meat, potatoes, rice, etc.
• overcompensation — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
• pay — to coat or cover (seams, a ship's bottom, etc.) with pitch, tar, or the like.
• recovery — an act of recovering.
• remuneration — the act of remunerating.
• repayment — to pay back or refund, as money.
• retrieval — the act of retrieving.
• return — to go or come back, as to a former place, position, or state: to return from abroad; to return to public office; to return to work.
• reward — a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
• salvo — a simultaneous or successive discharge of artillery, bombs, etc.
• sweetener — something that sweetens, as sugar or a low-calorie synthetic product used instead of sugar.
• tip — Eugene (Gladstone) 1888–1953, U.S. playwright: Nobel prize 1936.
• wages — Often, wages. money that is paid or received for work or services, as by the hour, day, or week. Compare living wage, minimum wage.
• recoupment — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
• solatium — something given in compensation for inconvenience, loss, injury, or the like; recompense.
• renewal — the act of renewing.
• adjustment — An adjustment is a small change that is made to something such as a machine or a way of doing something.
• dues — owed at present; having reached the date for payment: This bill is due.