propitiatory

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There was a brief Cabinet crisis, in which Premier Solh shuffled his ministers in a faintly propitiatory manner.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ancestors are invoked who around her as she starts the propitiatory dance.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the heart of mankind there is a tiny shrine with its burning taper; the idol is Self; the propitiatory light is for subliminal foes.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James

Raised voices reached him, and Rodd's answer, civil and propitiatory, came, imperfectly, to his ear.

From Ovington's Bank by Weyman, Stanley J.

They haunted well-known spots on the road by which the Shades must pass to their last resting-place, but as they left the living unmolested, the living were not called upon to make propitiatory offerings.

From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Thomson, Basil