Propitiation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PROPITIATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of propitiating
• atonement, especially that of Jesus Christ.
• the action of propitiating or appeasing a god, spirit, or person
• The act of appeasing the wrath and conciliating the favor of an offended person; the act of making propitious.
• That which propitiates; atonement or atoning sacrifice; specifically, the influence or effects of the death of Christ in appeasing the divine justice, and conciliating the divine favor.
• the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity
• the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity)

Words related to PROPITIATION

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Words that contain PROPITIATION

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How to use PROPITIATION in a sentence

• No propitiation of a created being could atone for the sins of all other creatures.
• The genius of monasticism, ancient and modern, is the propitiation of the Divinity who seeks to punish rather than to forgive.
• This manner of propitiation by sacrifice he repeated as an annual feast, and left posterity to follow.
• At last the body was found with the club, and he thought that propitiation should be made to the shade of Harald.
• This fulsome fawning on the great was later changed into propitiation of the British public, and unknown authors revelled in excuses for publishing their earlier efforts.
• In the meantime, she traced around him, with wavering steps, the propitiation, which some have thought has been derived from the Druidical mythology.
• They have tried the most extravagant propitiation, and found it useless.
• It was not a very serious promise, and it was plainly proffered in a spirit of propitiation.
• The blood of innocent Englishmen would have been shed everywhere as a propitiation to the manes of our murdered countrymen.
• To them we found we were gods! They moved about us with a kind of ceremony of propitiation.
• This was their method of propitiation, a common one enough, I believe, in many lands, though what may be its meaning I cannot tell.
• The powers which ruled the day-light and the dark, the flood and the frost, the bursting of the bud and the withering of the leaf, were angry and in need of propitiation.
• I practise the first and make propitiation for the second.
• Some of the former were cunning enough to purchase peace for themselves by conciliating the common tyrant, but woe to those unwilling or unable to offer aught in propitiation.
• Secondly, the restoration, the propitiation of Apollo, the quarrel of Agamemnon and Achilles, and the withdrawing of the latter from the Grecian army.
• So, for three days of blinding labor, Aggie applied herself to the propitiation of Mammon, the sending forth of her sacrificial lamb properly decked for the sacrifice.
• The devil was supposed to have the power of accusing mortal man at the great day of propitiation, so the Jews endeavoured to appease him with presents.
• This is the last vestige of that barbaric theology which regarded God as a vigorous but uncertain old gentleman with a beard and an inordinate lust for praise and propitiation.
• He saw a gaunt dog, searching yet from face to face for some lost idol, and beating the flinty world with a last thump of propitiation.
• It is used in all ceremonies performed in connection with the death of a person or having for their object the propitiation of the Manes of ancestors.
• There had been some further trouble in the family which had not been confided to Asako, but which necessitated urgent steps for the propitiation of religious influences.
• Some of these observances appear to be purely magical, while others are associated with the consulting of omens, acts of sacrifice, propitiation, and finally of thanksgiving.
• So they fetch the sheep of the colour prescribed, and slaughter them, and sprinkle the blood over such places as have been enjoined, in honour and propitiation of the spirit.
• All the altar stones were of sapphire, as symbols of the propitiation of sins.
• The judicious Bartley read his face, and, as a first step toward propitiation, introduced him to his daughter.
• The expression of the religious sentiment is his effort at propitiation, and is his one resource.

Similar words containing PROPITIA without suffix tion

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