expiatory offering
Example Sentences
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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
Hence the followers of sacrifice read, "One who keeps up a sacrificial fire, on using an incorrect word, should offer an expiatory offering to Saraswatí."
From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Madhava Acharya
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
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
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 Arlo Bates
