- present participle of propitiate.
Example Sentences
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He suggests that they may have perceived the cave walls as a kind of membrane between their world and the spirits, and thus created their paintings as a means of propitiating them.
From The Guardian • May 23, 2020
On this teacher’s advice, the Dalai Lama had himself been propitiating this dangerous spirit – along with innumerable other esoteric rituals – as part of his daily four hours of meditation and spiritual exercise.
From Newsweek
IT had aspects of a secular, almost pagan holiday�a sense of propitiating an earth increasingly incapable of forgiving what man has inflicted upon it.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Now it is utterly impossible, whatever may have been the revolution in taste since the days of Solomon, that the nauseous and offensive mandragore could have been considered as a propitiating present to a lady.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
Rotha was at first dumb with a sort of perplexed dismay; then she reflected, that to carry out her propitiating policy it would be best not to shew either scorn or disgust.
From A Letter of Credit by Warner, Susan