English
expiational
From expiation + -al.
Formed from expiation + -al
Proto-Indo-European *pewH- ‘to be clean, pure’
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Latin piō ‘appease’
Latin expiō ‘to make amends or atonement for a crime or a…’
Latin expiātiō ‘satisfaction’
Middle French expiation
English expiation
Today it means
adj Synonym of expiatory.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / expiational