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propitiation::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | conciliation, placation |
| Type of | appeasement, calming |
| Derivation | propitiate |
propitiation::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | atonement, expiation |
| Type of | redemption, salvation |
| Has types | amends, reparation |
Examples of propitiation
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Do not despise any honest propitiation, however small, in dealing with your editor.
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They were to be invoked for a piaculum, a propitiation conducted in advance of destroying a tree.
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In all branches of Judaism, Kohanim do not perform roles of propitiation, sacrifice, or sacrament.
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He repeated this mode of propitiation at an annual festival and left it to be imitated by his descendants.
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Sacrifice includes the practice of offering the lives of animals or people to the gods, as an act of propitiation or worship.
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Harvesting redcedars required some ceremony, and included propitiation of the tree's spirits as well as those of the surrounding trees.
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The resort to philanthropy as a means of propitiation becomes more general as the public becomes more and more critical of the ways of business.
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It's a form of propitiation through what can be considered the ultimate denial of the substance of this world and thus its politics and oppressions.
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To the ancients, wind and sun, sea and forest grove seemed to be informed by inscrutable spirits to whom, in awe and propitiation, they gave human personality and shape.
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- Placation: the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity
- Expiation: the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity)
- (propitiate) make peace with
- In Christianity, propitiation is a theological term denoting that by which God is rendered propitious, i.e., that 'satisfaction' or 'appeasement' by which it becomes consistent with His character and government to pardon and bless sinners. ...
- (propitiate) (1) OFFER-TO-God, GOD SATISFIED. (2) SUBSTITUTE.
- (propitiate) (v) - to appease, to sway, to convince
- (propitiate) to win or regain the goodwill of.
- A level of the Tone Scale at which one attempts to appease or buy off some danger or imagined danger.
- The appeasing of the wrath of the Deity by prayer or sacrifice when a sin or offence has bbeen committed against him...In Christian thought the death of Christ has usually been regarded as a propitiatory sacrifice to the Father for the sins of the world. *
