expiatory offering
Example Sentences
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The clothes thus taken were then all solemnly burned, as an expiatory offering, with invocations to the shade of Melissa.
From Darius the Great Makers of History by Jacob Abbott
It is left for me—I, who am the last of them, to put up some expiatory offering, I expect.
From The Man and the Moment by Elinor Glyn
Caesar's death might be regarded as a sacrifice, an expiatory offering for the sins of the nation; and the divided parties might embrace in virtue of the atonement.
From Caesar: a Sketch by James Anthony Froude
Ever afterwards the Sicilians offered sacrifices at this spring as an expiatory offering for the youth’s early death.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various
I fancy it has been used to hold something, perhaps a bracelet, which this Myro gave to Venus as an expiatory offering, for Myro was an unlucky lover.
From Abb? Aubain and Mosaics by Prosper M?rim?e
