expiatory 的定义
- able to make atonement or expiation; offered by way of expiation: expiatory sacrifices.
expiatory 近义词
purgative
更多expiatory例句
- Where, on the other hand, the victim is a fellow tribesman, the sacrifice is expiatory or piacular.
- And, third, Are his sufferings expiatory—the meritorious cause of human salvation?
- He came in one morning, after he had concluded his suspicions were wrong, and made a sort of expiatory call.
- A great expiatory sacrifice succeeded in finally calming him.
- Piacular, pī-ak′ū-lar, adj. serving to appease, expiatory: requiring expiation: atrociously bad.