expiative

Thân thiện

The priest offered an expiative sacrifice at the altar.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Having the power to atone for something: Describes something that can make amends for a wrong or a sin.
   • Offered as a means of expiation or propitiation: Describes an action or offering intended to appease or seek forgiveness.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The priest performed an expiative ritual to cleanse the community.
  • He saw his charitable work as an expiative act for his past mistakes.

Advanced Usage

• The term is formal and is most commonly used in religious, moral, or literary contexts to describe acts of atonement.
• It often modifies nouns like , , , , or .

Variants and Related Words

• Expiatory (adj): A more common synonym with identical meaning.
  • He made an expiatory offering.
• Expiate (v): To atone for; to make amends for.
  • He sought to expiate his guilt.
• Expiation (n): The act of making amends or atonement.
  • She demanded expiation for the insult.

Synonyms

• Propitatory: Intended to appease or conciliate.
• Purgative: Serving to purify or cleanse.
• Atoning: Making amends for a wrong.

Related Phrases

• Expiative sacrifice: A sacrifice made for the purpose of atonement.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation
   • expiatory (or propitiatory) sacrifice

Từ đồng nghĩa

• expiatory
• propitiatory