propitiate
verb (used with object)
to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate.
propitiating
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present participleof propitiate.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
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
The germ and core of the Aztec religion was the idea of the constant necessity of propitiating the gods by means of human sacrifice, and to this aspect of their religion we will return later.
From The Mythologies of Ancient Mexico and Peru by Lewis Spence
He crept cautiously up to the fence, and put out a propitiating hand.
From The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields by Sarah Bell Hackley
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 J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
