expiatory offering

Example Sentences

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It was proposed to burn it, but mark the reply; they advise not only to send it back, but also to offer an expiatory offering for the sin of the warriors.

From The Bible: what it is by Bradlaugh, Charles

It is left for me—I, who am the last of them, to put up some expiatory offering, I expect.

From The Man and the Moment by Glyn, Elinor

Caesar's death might be regarded as a sacrifice, an expiatory offering for the sins of the nation; and the divided parties might embrace in virtue of the atonement.

From Caesar: a Sketch by Froude, James Anthony

Or the analogy of the ceremonial law is accepted; and then Christ is set forth as a propitiatory or expiatory offering to obtain remission of sins for us.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman

He had, too, a half-defined feeling that in thus tempting fate still further, he made a sort of expiatory offering for his actual guilt.

From The Philistines by Bates, Arlo