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What does expiatory mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to expiation.
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This requirement, which is addressed to all and not to certain expiatory victims, is much more difficult than a sudden, violent death.
We would never conceive that an expiatory debt, as serious as it may be, does not have an end.
This beautiful label manages to harmonise the history of the brand with that of the expiatory temple.
He died in his forties in a sanitarium, unvisited by Eugene, who, twenty years later, wrote this expiatory play.
The old god appeared to carry away with him various weaknesses and fulfilled the role of an expiatory victim and scapegoat.
Where, on the other hand, the victim is a fellow tribesman, the sacrifice is expiatory or piacular.

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