expiatoryadj.
/ˈɛkspɪəˌtəri/ Having the attribute of expiating or making satisfaction for an offence; serving to expiate. Const. of.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > atonement > [adjective]
satisfactoryc1443
expiatory1548
satisfactorious1561
amendsful1605
piacular1606
atoning1609
expiative1641
ilastical1649
expiatorious1651
satisfactional1681
lustratory1738
piaculous1780
expiating1793
satisfactive1829
expiational1874
lustrative1875
piaculative1919
1548 H. Latimer Notable Serm. sig. C.vii Expiatorie..is no thynge elles but a thynge wherby to obteyne remissyon of synnes.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 62 He hath patiently endured a while the first expiatorie purifications and troubles.
a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1683) II. 348 The sacrifice expiatory for our offences was to be a lamb without blemish.
1793 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 355 The first great misfortune will call them from their dungeons as expiatory victims.
1812 Cogan Theol. Disquisitions ii. 183 Human sacrifices..being the most valuable..were considered as the most expiatory.
1869 E. M. Goulburn Pursuit of Holiness xi. 105 That bloody and shameful death was..expiatory of sin.
Derivatives
ˈexpiaˌtoriness n.
ΚΠ
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Expiatoriness,..expiating Quality.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
<
adj.1548