peace offering

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Peace-offering, burnt-offering, sin-offering, the morning oblation, and the evening oblation—these with other ceremonies of a like character went to make what we know as the sacrificial ritual of the temple.

From A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer by Huntington, William Reed

There can be no better way of making a Peace-offering than by helping to build up the health and strength of the new generation.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 18, 1919 by Various

King Magnus should marry King Inge's daughter Margaret, who afterwards was called Peace-offering.

From Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson