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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.
This beautiful label manages to harmonise the history of the brand with that of the expiatory temple.
Pilgrims would go up to the Temple in order to bring offerings or else to have sacrifices offered such as thanksgiving or expiatory sacrifices.
We would never conceive that an expiatory debt, as serious as it may be, does not have an end.
In an expiatory sacrifice the blood which is shed is regarded as wiping out a transgression.
From the communion sacrifice Smith derived the expiatory or propitiatory forms of sacrifice, which he termed piaculum, and the gift sacrifice.

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