expiatory offering
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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
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 Jacob Abbott
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 Charles Bradlaugh
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
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
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