propitiate
verb (used with object)
to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate.
unpropitiated
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a word derived from
propitiate.
Example Sentences
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The war god Huitzilopochtli required blood as the price of Aztec victory and the rain god Tlaloc required it as the price of the harvest; if these gods remained unpropitiated, the world would end.
From Time Magazine Archive
We found a relatively Supreme Being, a Maker, sanctioning morality, and unpropitiated by sacrifice, among peoples who go in dread of ghosts and wizards, but do not always worship ancestors.
From The Making of Religion by Andrew Lang
But the sovereign dreariness of Greenpoint, like an unpropitiated god, still remains.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
If so, why, as greatest of divine beings, 'Very Chief,' and having powerful ministers under him, is he left unpropitiated, unless it be by moral discourses at the mysteries?
From The Making of Religion by Andrew Lang
Among these was again the excellent Richardson, who seems to have been wholly unpropitiated by the olive branch held out to him in the Jacobite's Journal.
From Fielding by Austin Dobson
