expiatory
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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
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
Then there were the "initiates of the altar," who performed expiatory rites in the name and in the place of all the initiated.
From The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites by Dudley Wright
Lastly, the origin of the Delphinian expiatory festival from Delphi and Crete is as evident as its introduction by the Ionian princes; for Ægeus dwelt in the Delphinium, and was there buried.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
