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expiatory

/ek-spee-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee/US // ˈɛk spi əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i //UK // (ˈɛkspɪətərɪ, -trɪ) //

赦免性,赎罪,赎罪性,赎罪性的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : able to make atonement or expiation; offered by way of expiation: expiatory sacrifices.

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Examples

  • 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.