expiatory sacrifice
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
As if the little life that had passed with that morning mist had represented some ascending expiatory sacrifice, it seemed to have brought them into closer communion.
From A First Family of Tasajara by Harte, Bret
His goddess was not to be appeased by any propitiatory or expiatory sacrifice.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 06 by Edgeworth, Maria
The combination of these three victims constituted with the Greeks as well as the Romans an expiatory sacrifice.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)
Did Moses then ask to be made an expiatory sacrifice for the sin of Israel!
From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Lee, Andrew
