Significats de expiatory sacrifice en anglès

We must offer an expiatory sacrifice to Oromasis, for, awful thought!

Her death was not avenged, perhaps because they considered it as an expiatory sacrifice.

Did Moses then ask to be made an expiatory sacrifice for the sin of Israel!

By his expiatory sacrifice, the imperfect sacrifices of the temple were at once consummated and abolished.

Or could he conceive him as deliberately asking of God to make him an expiatory sacrifice!

This idea, of an expiatory sacrifice, offered to a malevolent and tutelary power, is a remnant of paganism.

For to fall, an expiatory sacrifice beneath the righteous condemnation that hangs over France, would be to die for Him.

At this the marchioness arose and performed an expiatory sacrifice, and it appeared, on consulting the oracle, that Oromasis was satisfied.

Nor do I look to be entreated, or am I subject to take pet, and require an expiatory sacrifice if some ceremony be omitted.

Accordingly some unfortunate man, in no respect more depraved than hundreds whose offences have been treated with lenity, is singled out as an expiatory sacrifice.

In this there was nothing wonderful; and in such an event expiatory sacrifices were perfectly in order.

The third was occupied with offerings, expiatory sacrifices, and other religious rites, such as fasting, mourning, continence, etc.

Before setting out they offered expiatory sacrifices to the souls of bears slain in previous hunts, and besought them to be favourable to the hunters.