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 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

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

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

The clothes thus taken were then all solemnly burned, as an expiatory offering, with invocations to the shade of Melissa.

From Darius the Great Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob