expiatory offering
Example Sentences
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Ever afterwards the Sicilians offered sacrifices at this spring as an expiatory offering for the youth’s early death.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various
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 Elinor Glyn
I fancy it has been used to hold something, perhaps a bracelet, which this Myro gave to Venus as an expiatory offering, for Myro was an unlucky lover.
From Abb? Aubain and Mosaics by Prosper M?rim?e
They explained to Kieft the occurrence, and proposed the expiatory offering to appease the widow's grief.
From Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
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 James Anthony Froude
