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expiatory
adjective as in purgative
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Where, on the other hand, the victim is a fellow tribesman, the sacrifice is expiatory or piacular.
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And, third, Are his sufferings expiatory—the meritorious cause of human salvation?
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He came in one morning, after he had concluded his suspicions were wrong, and made a sort of expiatory call.
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A great expiatory sacrifice succeeded in finally calming him.
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Piacular, pī-ak′ū-lar, adj. serving to appease, expiatory: requiring expiation: atrociously bad.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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