expiableadj.
/ˈɛkspɪəb(ə)l/ Capable of being expiated; admitting of expiation.
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society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > atonement > [adjective] > able to be atoned for
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atonablea1680
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Aiv/2 Expiable, expiabilis.
1575 W. Fulke Confut. Doctr. Purgatory (1577) 225 The popish purgatory, where none but veniall and light sinners are expiable.
1608 Bp. J. Hall Epist. II. iii. vii. 77 Gothes..haue thought this wrong [sc. adultery] not expiable, but by blood.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Leila iii. i. 138 Any connexion between a Christian knight and a Jewess was deemed a sin, scarce expiable.
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