expiatory

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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

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

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

From Life of Beethoven by Schindler, Anton

Ellen spent the afternoon gathering expiatory pond-lilies of which her aunt was as a rule fond.

From The Heart's Country by Vorse, Mary Heaton