How To Use Expiatory In A Sentence
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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
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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
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Accordingly, he sees storytelling festivals as large expiatory and redemptory rituals of an almost religious kind.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Expiatory punishment is arbitrary in character because it does not bear any relationship to the offense.
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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
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That 'for' is not condescending, still less expiatory; it affirms a bond.
Times, Sunday Times
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Voluntary expiatory suffering is what truly and really unites one to the Lord intimately.
Archive 2009-02-01
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Any expiatory rite is focused on the human predicament - on the problem of sin or cultic impurity.
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Expiatory punishment is strong punishment administered to children by parents or other adult authorities for breaking rules.
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In an expiatory sacrifice the blood which is shed is regarded as wiping out a transgression.
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Where woman is used as an expiatory victim, enslaved for the sole crime of having been born a woman, all those who know that this obscurantism leads to even greater disaster must rise.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Three More Letters to Sakineh
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Expiatory punishment is strong punishment administered to children by parents or other adult authorities for breaking rules.
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expiatory (or propitiatory) sacrifice
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Expiatory punishment is arbitrary in character because it does not bear any relationship to the offense.
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Younger children favor expiatory punishment; older children favor punishment by reciprocity.
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He offered expiatory sacrifices on behalf of his children, in case they sinned against God.
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There was probably something expiatory in this mad dash.
Henry’s Demons
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a daily oblation propitiatory, by a sacrifice expiatory, or remissory.
Sermons on the Card
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He died in his forties in a sanitarium, unvisited by Eugene, who, twenty years later, wrote this expiatory play.
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Now if I should preach in the country, among the unlearned, I would tell what propitiatory, expiatory, and remissory is; but here is a learned auditory: yet for them that be unlearned I will expound it.
Sermons on the Card
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Younger children favor expiatory punishment; older children favor punishment by reciprocity.
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For the last eighteen hundred years Greece has fed the human intellect; Rome, taught by Greece, and improving upon her teacher, has been the source of law and government and social civilization; "Judea has given to the world a pure Theism and the idea of expiatory sacrifice; and what neither one nor all of these could furnish," the perfection of moral and spiritual truth, has been given by christianity.
The Historic Significance of the Southern Revolution: A Lecture Delivered by Invitation in Petersburg, Va., March 14th and April 29th, 1864, and in Richmond, Va., April 7th and April 21st, 1864
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Propitiatory, expiatory, remissory, or satisfactory, for they signify all one thing in effect, and is nothing else but a thing whereby to obtain remission of sins, and to have salvation.
Sermons on the Card
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He died in his forties in a sanitarium, unvisited by Eugene, who, twenty years later, wrote this expiatory play.
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In all these respects the impetratory and expiatory Sacrifice of the Mass is of the greatest utility, both for the living and the dead.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman