What is "propitiations"

Usage examples of "propitiations".

Tomorrow the little puppy would lie in state, for the propitiations of the villagers.

Perhaps a community in this remote farmstead had kept up the rituals of their distant forebears, and thrown their personal goods into the marsh as propitiations to the goddesses of the water and the earth.

Perhaps I should have told you that a priest was present, proper propitiations were made-exactly as if it had been one of the Chosen.

And he was not altogether unaware of the little privileges, portions, and propitiations that a priest automatically attracts—what might be called the benefits of clergy.