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- noun Plural form of
propitiation .
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Examples
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But all human efforts, all the lavish gifts of the emperor, and the propitiations of the gods, did not banish the sinister belief that the conflagration was the result of an order.
Tacitus on Mythicism James F. McGrath 2010
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Among Gogo speakers, regular ancestor propitiations involving beer and prayer were held for those buried in the cattle byres kept in homestead courtyards.
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If they walk from that land with nothing more than calls for prayer and spiritual propitiations, the people of Ireland have been horribly jilted.
Alex Wilhelm: Apostolic Visitation of the Irish Church: A First Step Towards a Brighter Future? 2010
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But all human efforts, all the lavish gifts of the emperor, and the propitiations of the gods did not banish the sinister belief that the conflagration was the result of an order.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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But all human efforts, all the lavish gifts of the emperor, and the propitiations of the gods did not banish the sinister belief that the conflagration was the result of an order.
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Clinton sealed his friendship with the party's grandees by the first of what may be many propitiations.
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Some time afterwards, when his authority was laid down, he brought the matter before the senate, and the priests, at the same time, reported, out of the sacrifices, that there were intimations of divine anger, requiring propitiations and offerings.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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By such dreadful propitiations, by such dire and accursed sacrifices, at the thought of which human nature shudders, would you appease the offended Deity?
A Dissertation on Divine Justice 1616-1683 1967
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Government must make no more offerings of musical clocks to the Pagan temples; for such propitiations are understood by the people to mean -- that we admit their god to be naturally stronger than ours.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various
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They are essentially religious, symbolic, mystic, subtle, full of fears and propitiations, involved, often based on the forgotten, -- altogether unlike in their approach to the ingenuous and confident child.
Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds Lucy Sprague Mitchell 1922
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