expiatory offering

Example Sentences

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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

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 M?rim?e, Prosper

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

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 Thoreau, Henry David

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 Clarke, James Freeman