expiatory

expiatory
/ek"spee euh tawr'ee, -tohr'ee/, adj.
able to make atonement or expiation; offered by way of expiation: expiatory sacrifices.
[1540-50; < LL expiatorius, equiv. to expia(re) (see EXPIATE) + -torius -TORY1]

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