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 secure remission.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • a daily oblation propitiatory, by a sacrifice expiatory, or remissory.

    Sermons on the Card Hugh Latimer 1858

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