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Meanings of expiatory in английском
Having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation.
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Usage of expiatory in английском
1
All these garments had expiatory virtues, and each expiated a definite sin.
2
By performing those expiatory acts, one becomes happy and free from fever.
3
Therefore, O king, without laying down thy life, perform those expiatory acts.
4
After the expiatory and propitiatory ceremony the Reverend Father Douillard ascended the pulpit.
5
By performing certain sacrifices and expiatory acts, Epimenides succeeded in staying the plague.
6
In contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory.'
7
We must offer an expiatory sacrifice to Oromasis, for, awful thought!
8
Bathing and oblation are requisite, and all are of a lustral and expiatory nature.
9
Her death was not avenged, perhaps because they considered it as an expiatory sacrifice.
10
What shall I do when my expiatory work is finished?
11
You mean, don't you, if the ashes continue to fall, notwithstanding our expiatory demonstration?
12
After he had requested a splendid expiatory service to be performed, he left the monastery.
13
Remorse goaded me to desperation,-desperationprompted the expiatory vow.
14
But resolution which has dictated this new expiatory gift.
15
Did Moses then ask to be made an expiatory sacrifice for the sin of Israel!
16
By his expiatory sacrifice, the imperfect sacrifices of the temple were at once consummated and abolished.
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