expiatory
Example Sentences
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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
"After the great Christ paintings of the Renaissance, this is the first nonreligious painting of an expiatory personage, a self-sacrifice figure."
From Time Magazine Archive
It was proposed to burn it, but mark the reply; they advise not only to send it back, but also to offer an expiatory offering for the sin of the warriors.
From The Bible: what it is by Charles Bradlaugh
I doubt whether a real distinction can be made between propitiatory and expiatory sacrifices.
From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. Westbrook
The descent from the latter is also confirmed by the tradition concerning the expiatory virgins for the crime of Ajax the son of Oileus.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
