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A great expiatory sacrifice succeeded in finally calming him.
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Her death was not avenged, perhaps because they considered it as an expiatory sacrifice.
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By his expiatory sacrifice, the imperfect sacrifices of the temple were at once consummated and abolished.
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As some satisfaction for the indignity offered him, the bust of his patron became an expiatory sacrifice.
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Evidently vicarious sacrifice and expiatory sacrifice are very ancient heathen ideas.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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