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Expiative

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    That serves to expiate.

    "Studies on behavioral aspects of altruism connect it with guilt, resulting in either expiative or reparative consequences (Krebs 1970)."

Adjective
  1. 1
    having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation wordnet

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