propitiation
Example Sentences
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“But she completely devolves to where she goes into weakness and propitiation around the girls, and it’s strange where she ends up. I didn’t see it coming.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2021
The ideal is a lone figure, kneeling in solemn propitiation, with no sight of rival film crews, or of selfie sticks, or anything else that brings self-consciousness or artifice to the scene.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 16, 2015
To the ancients, wind and sun, sea and forest grove seemed to be informed by inscrutable spirits to whom, in awe and propitiation, they gave human personality and shape.
From Time Magazine Archive
“They’re really very good, you know,” he added, with a rather nervous smile of propitiation.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
H. Spencer, discussing adversely A. Comte’s opinion that fetichistic conceptions are formed by the higher animals, relates the following observation concerning a retriever who had learned for herself to perform an ‘act of propitiation.’
From The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion by James H. (James Henry) Leuba
Vocabulary lists containing propitiation
Great Expectations
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The Crucible, Acts 1–2
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David Copperfield
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