propitiates
- present tense form of propitiate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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They believe that shaving the head of the dead propitiates the deities in their favour.
From Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs by Silver, Jacob Mortimer Wier
While it powerfully propitiates the reader, it almost converts condemnation into compassion.
From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Cottle, Joseph
Ages, empires, civilisations pass, and leave some members even of educated mankind still, in certain points, on the level of the savage who propitiates with gifts, or addresses with prayers, the spirits of the dead.
From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Lang, Andrew
There is a humble, civil air about the people in the Vallée d'Ossau, which propitiates one: the berret is always taken off as a stranger passes, and a kind salutation uniformly given.
From Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Costello, Louisa Stuart
One of nobler birth propitiates only the spirits of his own ancestors.
From The Soul of the Far East by Lowell, Percival
