expiatory sacrifice

A great expiatory sacrifice succeeded in finally calming him.

Her death was not avenged, perhaps because they considered it as an expiatory sacrifice.

By his expiatory sacrifice, the imperfect sacrifices of the temple were at once consummated and abolished.

As some satisfaction for the indignity offered him, the bust of his patron became an expiatory sacrifice.

Evidently vicarious sacrifice and expiatory sacrifice are very ancient heathen ideas.