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
Nor do I look to be entreated, or am I subject to take pet, and require an expiatory sacrifice if some ceremony be omitted.
From The Praise of Folly by Wilson, John
By his expiatory sacrifice, the imperfect sacrifices of the temple were at once consummated and abolished.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 by Milman, Henry Hart
He looked around on their abstracted faces; in their gloomy savage enthusiasm for expiatory sacrifice, he was horrified to find the same unreasoning exaltation that had checked his exhortations then.
From By Shore and Sedge by Harte, Bret
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 Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)
