expiatory
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
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
Is the gift of a bell a common expiatory gift for crime?
Her son Paul, a taciturn individual who seems never to have forgotten his father's miserable death, performed an expiatory coronation in his honor, seeing that that ceremony had been neglected in Peter's life.
From Stories about Famous Precious Stones by Orpen, Mrs Goddard
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
