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
"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
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 Eugène Sue
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 Karl Otfried Müller
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 Mrs Goddard Orpen
