expiatory

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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."

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

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

The mixture would enable her to sleep restfully until morning, and would give her strength for the expiatory ceremony.

From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Sue, Eug?ne

In the Thearion at Trœzen there were expiatory sacrifices, book II. ch.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried