expiatory

adj

expiatory

adj

Etymology Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin expiātōrius.

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.

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