expiatory sacrifice
Example Sentences
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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 cloister-walls of the holy Amandus could not exclude it; and in the early psalms at morning, and during the litany and vespers, the accusativus, rose before his mind, exacting its expiatory sacrifice.
From Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von
The motive is truly important; and when I divulge it my sole ambition and delight shall be to make an expiatory sacrifice for my transgression.
From The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees by Crawford, Mary Caroline
Did Moses then ask to be made an expiatory sacrifice for the sin of Israel!
From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Lee, Andrew
Her death was not avenged, perhaps because they considered it as an expiatory sacrifice.
