expiatory offering
Example Sentences
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The Roman made an expiatory offering, and prayed, Whatever god or goddess thou art to whom this grove is sacred, be propitious to me, my family, and children, etc.
From Walden by Thoreau, Henry David
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 M?rim?e, Prosper
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 Bates, Arlo
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
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
