expiatory offering

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The Roman made an expiatory offering, and prayed, Whatever god or goddess thou art to whom this grove is sacred, be propitious to me, my family, and children, etc.

From Walden by Thoreau, Henry David

It is left for me—I, who am the last of them, to put up some expiatory offering, I expect.

From The Man and the Moment by Glyn, Elinor

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 Bradlaugh, Charles

He had, too, a half-defined feeling that in thus tempting fate still further, he made a sort of expiatory offering for his actual guilt.

From The Philistines by Bates, Arlo

Hence the followers of sacrifice read, "One who keeps up a sacrificial fire, on using an incorrect word, should offer an expiatory offering to Saraswatí."

From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava