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propitiation
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What does propitiation mean?
noun
- The act of propitiating; placation, atonement, similar to expiation but also involving the appeasement of anger.
- The death of Christ as a basis for the forgiveness of sin.
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There was such an obvious suggestion of propitiation in her tone that Theron went around and kissed her.
He carried his head on one side, partly in modest depreciation of himself, partly in modest propitiation of everybody else.
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The act of propitiation or of worship is designed to appeal to a sense of status imputed to the inscrutable power that is thus approached.
The Earth, in these ancient cults, was the mystic source of all life, and to it, as a propitiation, life of all kinds was sacrificed.
Here under its shadow one learns how naturally nature worship, and the propitiation of the forces of nature, arose in minds which had no better light.