Significados de bitter expiation en inglés

I hoped to die; but God reserved me for a long and bitter expiation of my sin.

More than the man who had lived out a bitter expiation, did she pity her who had missed the fight, slipped out of the struggle.

In winding up Mistress Fanshawe's memoirs, the reader will no doubt expect to hear that she came finally to bitter expiation of her youthful levities.