expiatory

[ ek-spee-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]

/ ˈɛk spi əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i /

able to make atonement or expiation; offered by way of expiation: expiatory sacrifices.

Origin of expiatory

1540–50; < Late Latin expiātōrius, equivalent to expiā(re) (see expiate) + -tōrius -tory¹

non·ex·pi·a·to·ry, adjective

In contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory.'

Life Of Johnson, Volume 4 (of 6) |Boswell
Very naively he offered heaven, by way of expiatory anguish, the abominable torment from which he was suffering.

Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille |Emile Zola
It was expiatory, and was accompanied by a moral reconstruction of society, a new beginning, with old scores wiped out.

Introduction to the History of Religions |Crawford Howell Toy
All the penalties inflicted by the Inquisition had this expiatory character.417 Some of them were of quite a trivial description.

Medival Heresy and the Inquisition |A. S. Turberville

Over it an expiatory chapel was built, with buildings adjoining, the whole forming a very beautiful structure.

Paris: With Pen and Pencil |David W. Bartlett

expiatory

/ (ˈɛkspɪətərɪ, -trɪ) /

capable of making expiation

given or offered in expiation