expiatory sacrifice
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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
The combination of these three victims constituted with the Greeks as well as the Romans an expiatory sacrifice.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
As if the little life that had passed with that morning mist had represented some ascending expiatory sacrifice, it seemed to have brought them into closer communion.
From A First Family of Tasajara by Bret Harte
Evidently vicarious sacrifice and expiatory sacrifice are very ancient heathen ideas.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
He "died unto sin once," as an expiatory sacrifice to atone for the guilt of an elect world.
From Notes on the Apocalypse by David Steele
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