Similar words: expiratory, expiate, expiation, mediatory, initiatory, exploratory, explanatory, retaliatory. Meaning: ['ekspɪətɔrɪ /-tərɪ] 
adj. having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation.
adj. having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation. 
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1 Expiatory punishment is arbitrary in character because it does not bear any relationship to the offense.
2 Younger children favor expiatory punishment; older children favor punishment by reciprocity.
3 Expiatory punishment is strong punishment administered to children by parents or other adult authorities for breaking rules.
4 He offered expiatory sacrifices on behalf of his children, in case they sinned against God.
5 In addition, concrete operational children increasingly come to regard punishment by reciprocity as more appropriate than expiatory punishment.
6 In accordance with it, morality and moral education have experienced the change from the expiatory moral education, rational moral education to life-centered moral education.
7 There are poems relating to sins and their atonement, errors in performing rituals and their expiatory acts, political and philosophical issues, and a wonderful hymn to Prithvi or Mother Earth.
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