expiatory

expiatory is a 9-letter English word with 2 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Having power, or intended, to make expiation; atoning; as, an expiatory sacrifice. Face value is 21 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 21 · Words With Friends 21 · 2 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Having power, or intended, to make expiation; atoning; as, an expiatory sacrifice.
2. adjective. having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation

   "expiatory (or propitiatory) sacrifice"

   Synonyms: expiative, propitiatory

Synonyms

expiative, propitiatory

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