Meaning

1 senses
  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.

    искупи́тельныйiskupítelʹnyj

More definitions
  • having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation

Translations

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By meaning 1
of or pertaining to expiation:

Origin

Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin expiātōrius.

Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin expiātōrius.

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Forms

more expiatory, most expiatory
Comparativemore expiatory Lesson
Superlativemost expiatory Lesson

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
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Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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