Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to remission; serving or tending to remit; obtaining remission.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Serving or tending to
remit , or to secureremission .
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Examples
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Now if I should preach in the country, among the unlearned, I would tell what propitiatory, expiatory, and remissory is; but here is a learned auditory: yet for them that be unlearned I will expound it.
Sermons on the Card Hugh Latimer 1858
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Propitiatory, expiatory, remissory, or satisfactory, for they signify all one thing in effect, and is nothing else but a thing whereby to obtain remission of sins, and to have salvation.
Sermons on the Card Hugh Latimer 1858
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a daily oblation propitiatory, by a sacrifice expiatory, or remissory.
Sermons on the Card Hugh Latimer 1858
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