expiatory (or propitiatory) sacrifice. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : expiatory sacrifices. From Dictionary.com.
In our view, punishment ought to be regarded as at once an expiation and a discipline, or, in other words, an expiatory discipline. From Wordnik.com. [Crime and Its Causes] Reference
But this is the language of every expiatory sacrifice. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Justification by Faith] Reference
Certainly, not any expiatory or meritorious sacrifices. From Wordnik.com. [The Theology of Holiness] Reference
That the billow may not cast up again our expiatory offerings. From Wordnik.com. [Helen] Reference
O king without laying down thy life, perform those expiatory acts. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Peripsēma hēmōn genou; — “Be thou our expiatory sacrifice.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity] Reference
For this fatal error he offered his own blood as an expiatory sacrifice. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866] Reference
By performing those expiatory acts, one becomes happy and free from fever. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
They even instituted an expiatory feast for these two pretended sacrileges. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
Henceforth the ceremonial, instead of placatory and expiatory, became nuptial. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
It's hard to avoid the feeling that there's something expiatory in his frankness. From Wordnik.com. [:Acquired Taste] Reference
Gifts are thank-offerings (eucharistic); sacrifices are sin-offerings (expiatory). From Wordnik.com. [Our Man In Heaven: An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews] Reference
To which purpose were the solemn words that many used in their expiatory sacrifices, as. From Wordnik.com. [A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity] Reference
The flames of persecution were not extinguished with the conclusion of the solemn expiatory pageant. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
At the end of an avenue of silver firs is the expiatory chapel, with a granite portico, in the Doric style. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
He came in one morning, after he had concluded his suspicions were wrong, and made a sort of expiatory call. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885] Reference
Declarations of Innocence and some expiatory Meso - potamian texts, concern both religious and ethical actions. From Wordnik.com. [SIN AND SALVATION] Reference
In front and in the middle was erected an expiatory monument of a pyramidical shape, and surmounted by a funeral vase. From Wordnik.com. [The Paris Sketch Book] Reference
Nor do I look to be entreated, or am I subject to take pet, and require an expiatory sacrifice if some ceremony be omitted. From Wordnik.com. [In Praise of Folly] Reference
Besides, all expiatory sacrifices were of the same nature, and of the same use, both before and after the giving of the law. From Wordnik.com. [Christologia] Reference
He knew with what complacency and eagerness they would accept an expiatory victim whose sacrifice should be their salvation. From Wordnik.com. [The Honor of the Name] Reference
Uceda, and the king's confessor, the Dominican Aliaga, Calderón was seized upon as an expiatory victim to satisfy public clamour. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
These posts are hereditary and their holders receive presents of a rupee and a cloth when members of the caste have to give expiatory feasts. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
COROLLARY In these words, "the mass is an expiatory, representative and commemorative sacrifice," there is an opposition in the apposition and. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
The motive is truly important; and when I divulge it my sole ambition and delight shall be to make an expiatory sacrifice for my transgression. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees] Reference
Which things have a notable shadow in them of the great expiatory sacrifice, concerning which we treat, and expound the expressions wherein it is declared. From Wordnik.com. [A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity] Reference
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