expiatory

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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

But it is not to last�Stine is married to another, while Joachim is wedded only to his simple expiatory life.

From Time Magazine Archive

"After the great Christ paintings of the Renaissance, this is the first nonreligious painting of an expiatory personage, a self-sacrifice figure."

From Time Magazine Archive

Only a long habit of sin and crime, an accumulation of oft-repeated faults, can compass this sentiment, at once avenging and expiatory.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor

Then there were the "initiates of the altar," who performed expiatory rites in the name and in the place of all the initiated.

From The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites by Wright, Dudley