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
Accordingly, some unfortunate man, in no respect more depraved than hundreds whose offences have been treated with lenity, is singled out as an expiatory sacrifice.
From Venetia by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
In the later books of the Maccabees we have this idea of the expiatory sacrifice and intercession of the ideal Israelite still retained, but degraded, probably under Greek influences.
From St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. I A Practical Exposition by Charles Gore
A great expiatory sacrifice succeeded in finally calming him.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various
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
