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expiable, a.|ˈɛkspɪəb(ə)l|
[a. F. expiable, ad. L. expiābilis, f. expiāre: see expiate.]
Capable of being expiated; admitting of expiation.
1570Levins Manip. 3 Expiable, expiabilis. 1575Fulke Conf. Purg. (1577) 225 The popish purgatory, where none but veniall and light sinners are expiable. 1614Bp. Hall Epist. iii. vii, Gothes..have thought this wrong [adultery] not expiable, but by blood. 1838Lytton Leila iii. i, Any connexion between a Christian knight and a Jewess was deemed a sin, scarce expiable. |