expiatory sacrifice
Example Sentences
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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
His goddess was not to be appeased by any propitiatory or expiatory sacrifice.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 06 by Edgeworth, Maria
It was not until that Altar, with its expiatory sacrifice, had been passed, that one could enter into the Holy Place, where the Altar of Incense stood.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms by Maclaren, Alexander
The cloister-walls of the holy Amandus could not exclude it; and in the early psalms at morning, and during the litany and vespers, the accusativus, rose before his mind, exacting its expiatory sacrifice.
From Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von
She came very near disclosing to the Professorin, that she wanted to devote herself as an expiatory sacrifice, not from compulsion, but, through heavenly grace, freely renouncing all the delights of the world.
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold
