expiatory sacrifice
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As the state Librarian dryly explained: "It is an expiatory sacrifice to veracity, to good sense and true taste."
From Time Magazine Archive
For this fatal error he offered his own blood as an expiatory sacrifice.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 by Various
But if we take the connection as given in our version, the propitiation is still through Christ's blood, and is thus a propitiatory or expiatory sacrifice.
From Companion to the Bible by Barrows, E. P. (Elijah Porter)
His goddess was not to be appeased by any propitiatory or expiatory sacrifice.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 06 by Edgeworth, Maria
Accordingly some unfortunate man, in no respect more depraved than hundreds whose offenses have been treated with lenity, is singled out as an expiatory sacrifice.
From My Recollections of Lord Byron by Jerningham, Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry), Sir
