expiatory

expiatory

English

Etymology

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Ecclesiastical Latin expiātōriuslbor.
English expiatory

    Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin expiātōrius.

    Adjective

    expiatory (comparative more expiatory, superlative most expiatory)

    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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