expiatory offering
Example Sentences
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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 Froude, James Anthony
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 Glyn, Elinor
It was proposed to burn it, but mark the reply; they advise not only to send it back, but also to offer an expiatory offering for the sin of the warriors.
From The Bible: what it is by Bradlaugh, Charles
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 Abbott, Jacob
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 Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
