expiatory offering
Example Sentences
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He had, too, a half-defined feeling that in thus tempting fate still further, he made a sort of expiatory offering for his actual guilt.
From The Philistines by Arlo Bates
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
Or the analogy of the ceremonial law is accepted; and then Christ is set forth as a propitiatory or expiatory offering to obtain remission of sins for us.
From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke
The Roman made an expiatory offering, and prayed, Whatever god or goddess thou art to whom this grove is sacred, be propitious to me, my family, and children, etc.
From Walden by Henry David Thoreau
They explained to Kieft the occurrence, and proposed the expiatory offering to appease the widow's grief.
From Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
