expiatory

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Definition of expiatory

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

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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Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin expiātōrius.

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