expiatory

In contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory.'

Very naively he offered heaven, by way of expiatory anguish, the abominable torment from which he was suffering.

It was expiatory, and was accompanied by a moral reconstruction of society, a new beginning, with old scores wiped out.

All the penalties inflicted by the Inquisition had this expiatory character.417 Some of them were of quite a trivial description.