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The act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing
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propitiation
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WordNet
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n. the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity [syn: placation , conciliation ] the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity) [syn: expiation , atonement ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Late Latin propitiationem (nominative propitiatio ) "an atonement," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin propitiare "appease, propitiate," from propitius "favorable, gracious, kind, well-disposed," from pro- "forward" (see pro- ...
Wikipedia
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Propitiation (from Latin propitiāre , "to appease;" from propitius , "gracious") is the act of appeasing or making well-disposed a deity , thus incurring divine favor or avoiding divine retribution .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Propitiation \Pro*pi`ti*a"tion\, n. [L. propitiatio: cf. F. propitiation.] The act of appeasing the wrath and conciliating the favor of an offended person; the act of making propitious. (Theol.) That which propitiates; atonement or atoning sacrifice; specifically, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context dated English) The act of propitiate; placation, atonement, similar to expiation but with the added concept of appeasement of anger.
Usage examples of propitiation.
Amongst the Central Australian natives there is never any idea of appealing for assistance to any one of these Alcheringa ancestors in any way, nor is there any attempt made in the direction of propitiation, with one single exception in the case of the mythic creature called Wollunqua, amongst the Warramunga tribe, who, it may be remarked, is most distinctly regarded as a snake and not as a human being.
That religion is in brief a propitiation or worship of the human dead, who according to the degree of power ascribed to them by the living are supposed to vary in dignity from the humble rank of a mere common ghost up to the proud position of deity.
In regard to their intellectual outlook upon the world, they were deeply imbued, as I shewed in a former lecture, with a belief in magic, but it can hardly be said that they possessed any religion in the strict sense of the word, by which I mean a propitiation of real or imaginary powers regarded as personal beings superior to man: certainly the Australian aborigines appear to have believed in no beings who deserve to be called gods.
The one thing that seems fairly clear about them is that in some way they were associated with the worship or propitiation of the dead.
Department, a little clipped-on notice said, had gained approval for a three percent increase in salamander propitiation fees.
Every three hundred and sixty paces he repeated the full Ritual of Prayer and Propitiation, muttering the words under his breath to keep them secret from anyone who might chance across him.
He stood up, stretched, and did the full Ritual of Prayer and Propitiation before continuing on.
Fed on blood and despair, beseeching propitiation, the unwilling surrender of mortal lives.
Now to save men and to be a propitiation for their sins belongs to Christ as Head.
His grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in His blood.
His grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in His blood.
God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in His blood, to the showing of His justice .
Kurald Emurlahn played ceaselessly within the tree-ringed circle, rippling half-shapes dancing along the pictographs, the sorcerous emanations awakened by the propitiations that had accompanied the arrival of dusk.
A fallen warrior faces his first dusk among kin Propitiations must be made.
As I spoke on occasion of Tract 90, I claimed, in behalf of who would, that he might hold in the Anglican Church a comprecation with the saints with Bramhall, and the Mass all but transubstantiation with Andrewes, or with Hooker that transubstantiation itself is not a point for Churches to part communion upon, or with Hammond that a general council, truly such, never did, never shall err in a matter of faith, or with Bull that man lost inward grace by the fall, or with Thorndike that penance is a propitiation for post-baptismal sin, or with Pearson that the all-powerful name of Jesus is no otherwise given than in the Catholic Church.