Usually means: Atoning or making amends for.
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  1. expiatory: Merriam-Webster
  2. expiatory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. expiatory: Collins English Dictionary
  4. expiatory: Vocabulary.com
  5. expiatory: Wordnik
  6. expiatory: Wiktionary
  7. expiatory: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. expiatory: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. expiatory: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Expiatory, expiatory: Dictionary.com
  11. Expiatory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. expiatory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. expiatory: Rhymezone
  14. Expiatory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. expiatory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. expiatory: FreeDictionary.org
  17. expiatory: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. expiatory: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to expiation.

Similar:
expiative, propitiatory, exegetic, exonerative, expostulatory, exorcisory, exonic, penitentiary, exilic, exorcismal, more...

Opposite:
accusatory, blaming, condemnatory, incriminatory, prosecutorial

Types:
penance, atonement, indulgence, more...

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Similar:
expiative, propitiatory, exegetic, exonerative, expostulatory, exorcisory, exonic, penitentiary, exilic, exorcismal, more...

Opposite:
accusatory, blaming, condemnatory, incriminatory, prosecutorial

Types:
penance, atonement, indulgence, more...



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