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.
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"After the great Christ paintings of the Renaissance, this is the first nonreligious painting of an expiatory personage, a self-sacrifice figure."
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As the state Librarian dryly explained: "It is an expiatory sacrifice to veracity, to good sense and true taste."
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But hearken to what remains to be told; I have lately arrived in France, and I wished not to let my great purpose of continual expiatory acts stand still during my sojourn in this country.
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 6 of 6 by Sue, Eugène
In the philosophy of Plato, on the other hand, punishment was chiefly expiatory and purificatory.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole