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Expiatory

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to expiation.

    "18 January 1549, Hugh Latimer, Sermon of the Plough They would have us saved by a daily oblation propitiatory; by a sacrifice expiatory, or remissory."

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

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin expiātōrius.

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