Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the power to make atonement or expiation; offered by way of expiation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having power, or intended, to make expiation; atoning.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
expiation
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation
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Examples
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In our view, punishment ought to be regarded as at once an expiation and a discipline, or, in other words, an expiatory discipline.
Crime and Its Causes William Douglas Morrison 1898
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For the last eighteen hundred years Greece has fed the human intellect; Rome, taught by Greece, and improving upon her teacher, has been the source of law and government and social civilization; "Judea has given to the world a pure Theism and the idea of expiatory sacrifice; and what neither one nor all of these could furnish," the perfection of moral and spiritual truth, has been given by christianity.
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It is not denied that his teachings have great value, or that what is called his expiatory suffering for sin is effective in a degree, on men’s feeling, as well as efficacious in the satisfaction of justice; and it is continually put to his credit, in this same suffering and satisfaction, that he has purchased the Holy.
The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation. 1802-1876 1871
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There was probably something expiatory in this mad dash.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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Consequently, if the Church as a whole feels the pain of shame and disgrace, that can be an expiatory suffering for a sexually dissolute and depraved age.
Suffer the little children to come unto me « Anglican Samizdat 2010
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There was probably something expiatory in this mad dash.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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Consequently, if the Church as a whole feels the pain of shame and disgrace, that can be an expiatory suffering for a sexually dissolute and depraved age.
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But it must be understood in all its fullness as a victory for all, for both Jew and Christian alike; otherwise the whole expiatory point of Kolbe's substitution is lost.
Anti-Catholicism 2009
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Where woman is used as an expiatory victim, enslaved for the sole crime of having been born a woman, all those who know that this obscurantism leads to even greater disaster must rise.
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Voluntary expiatory suffering is what truly and really unites one to the Lord intimately.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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