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

But the new principle speedily degenerated into a belief in the expiatory nature of the gifts.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

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