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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adj.形容词 adjective
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- : 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.
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