expiatory

How To Use expiatory In A Sentence

• Expiatory punishment is strong punishment administered to children by parents or other adult authorities for breaking rules.
• In all these respects the impetratory and expiatory Sacrifice of the Mass is of the greatest utility, both for the living and the dead. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
• He died in his forties in a sanitarium, unvisited by Eugene, who, twenty years later, wrote this expiatory play.
• Propitiatory, expiatory, remissory, or satisfactory, for they signify all one thing in effect, and is nothing else but a thing whereby to obtain remission of sins, and to have salvation. Sermons on the Card
• For the last eighteen hundred years Greece has fed the human intellect; Rome, taught by Greece, and improving upon her teacher, has been the source of law and government and social civilization; "Judea has given to the world a pure Theism and the idea of expiatory sacrifice; and what neither one nor all of these could furnish," the perfection of moral and spiritual truth, has been given by christianity. The Historic Significance of the Southern Revolution: A Lecture Delivered by Invitation in Petersburg, Va., March 14th and April 29th, 1864, and in Richmond, Va., April 7th and April 21st, 1864
• Younger children favor expiatory punishment; older children favor punishment by reciprocity.
• Now if I should preach in the country, among the unlearned, I would tell what propitiatory, expiatory, and remissory is; but here is a learned auditory: yet for them that be unlearned I will expound it. Sermons on the Card
• He died in his forties in a sanitarium, unvisited by Eugene, who, twenty years later, wrote this expiatory play.
• a daily oblation propitiatory, by a sacrifice expiatory, or remissory. Sermons on the Card
• There was probably something expiatory in this mad dash. Henry’s Demons