expiatory

How To Use expiatory In A Sentence

• But it must be understood in all its fullness as a victory for all, for both Jew and Christian alike; otherwise the whole expiatory point of Kolbe's substitution is lost. Anti-Catholicism
• Consequently, if the Church as a whole feels the pain of shame and disgrace, that can be an expiatory suffering for a sexually dissolute and depraved age. Suffer the little children to come unto me « Anglican Samizdat
• Accordingly, he sees storytelling festivals as large expiatory and redemptory rituals of an almost religious kind.
• The souls of the dead are led before him and he reminds them that they themselves are the authors of their fate and are alone responsible for the expiatory punishment they are about to undergo.
• Just as a tiny chip of wood can not within it the whole energy of the sun, so also, and in a still greater degree, is man incapable of converting the boundless value of the impetratory and expiatory sacrifice into an infinite effect for his soul. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
• It is not denied that his teachings have great value, or that what is called his expiatory suffering for sin is effective in a degree, on men’s feeling, as well as efficacious in the satisfaction of justice; and it is continually put to his credit, in this same suffering and satisfaction, that he has purchased the Holy. The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.
• Expiatory punishment is arbitrary in character because it does not bear any relationship to the offense.
• In our view, punishment ought to be regarded as at once an expiation and a discipline, or, in other words, an expiatory discipline. Crime and Its Causes
• That 'for' is not condescending, still less expiatory; it affirms a bond. Times, Sunday Times
• Voluntary expiatory suffering is what truly and really unites one to the Lord intimately. Archive 2009-02-01