expiatory

pronunciation

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  • Adjective:
    having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation

Word Origin

expiatory (adj.)
1540s, from Late Latin expiatorius, from expiat-, past participle stem of Latin expiare "make amends" (see expiation).

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