substitute
noun
a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
substitutionary
-
a word derived from
substitute.
Example Sentences
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My sense is that Paul would have found the substitutionary model degrading, a small version of what Easter means.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2019
A colleague of hers said the film seemed to assume the theory of substitutionary atonement.
From Time Magazine Archive
Anselm's formulation, often called substitutionary atonement, has been restated in countless ways over the centuries.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the one is included His teachings and example, both in His life and death: in the other is included His substitutionary, sacrificial, and atoning death for the sin of the world.
From Satan by Lewis Sperry Chafer
This was the basis of fact on which the substitutionary character of Christ's sufferings and death in the Atonement was asserted.
From The Atonement and the Modern Mind by James Denney
