Expiation /(?)/

Ex·pi·a·tion

Expiation

n.
  1. The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty.
    His liberality seemed to have something in it of self-abasement and expiation.
  2. The means by which reparation or atonement for crimes or sins is made; an expiatory sacrifice or offering; an atonement.
    Those shadowy expiations weak, The blood of bulls and goats.
  3. An act by which the threats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen. [Obs.]