expiatory

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But it is not to last�Stine is married to another, while Joachim is wedded only to his simple expiatory life.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The expiatory fine was 1,000 marks, but Greifswald, where the family of the deceased resided, remained closed to him.

From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Sastrow, Bartholomew

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

From Life of Beethoven by Schindler, Anton