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
The expiatory is an unknown attribute in the Divine.
From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Macleod, Fiona
As some satisfaction for the indignity offered him, the bust of his patron became an expiatory sacrifice.
From Life of Beethoven by Schindler, Anton
