Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- By way of propitiation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb By way of propitiation.
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- adverb By way of
propitiation .
Etymologies
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propitiatory + -ly
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Examples
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He also bounded, shied, dodged, ducked, swerved, dropped, crawled, zig-zagged and generally gave his best attention to evading the shot of the common fighting-man whom he had propitiatorily addressed as "_Emir_," though a mere wearer of a single fillet of camel-hair cord around his _haik_.
Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913
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"An 'how air ye a-comin' on, Mrs. Giles?" he asked propitiatorily.
In the Tennessee mountains, pseud. Charles Egbert Craddock 1885
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