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expiable
[ ek-spee-uh-buhl ]
adjective
- capable of being expiated:
an expiable crime.
ˈ辱
/ ˈɛɪəə /
adjective
- capable of being expiated or atoned for
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Other 51Թ Forms
- ԴDz·p·· adjective
- ܲ·p·· adjective
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Homicide was not the only crime thus expiable: blood-money could be exacted for all crimes of violence.
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The murder of a man not consanguineous, even though he be the husband of the murderess, is expiable, does not concern the Erinyes; it is only their duty to prosecute the murder of consanguineous relatives.
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Missing silver spoons and cooked petty cash were trivialities usually expiable at the price of a boot-assisted dismissal; but this—!
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