expiative

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expiative (comparative more expiative, superlative most expiative)

  1. That serves to expiate.
    • 2012, W. W. Meissner, Ethical Dimension of Psychoanalysis, The: A Dialogue[1]:
      Studies on behavioral aspects of altruism connect it with guilt, resulting in either expiative or reparative consequences (Krebs 1970).