propitiate

verbconciliate
verbpacify

Synonyms for propitiate

verb conciliate

Antonyms for propitiate

atone

verb. compensate; make amends for former misdoing

Word Origin & History

1580s, a back-formation from propritiation and in part from propitiate (adj.), from Latin propitiatus, past participle of propitiare "appease, propitiate" (see propitiation). Related: Propitiated; propitiating; propitiatingly; propitiable (1550s).

Example Sentences for propitiate

I told him I did, and it was because I did and meant to do so to the last, that I would not stoop to propitiate any of them.

Not in a spirit of contrition, in a way to propitiate his scandalised fellow-citizens.

She tried to propitiate the General after her usual manner towards him.

If 'Tildy thought to propitiate Uncle Remus, she was mistaken.

Yet the Brahman needed the Sudra, and had to propitiate him in order to use him.

“Your God must be hard to propitiate,” said the young Jewess.

Do not suppose that I make this confession of my folly to you in order to propitiate the Deity.

For the rest, I trust to myself to propitiate the kindly and to silence the calumnious.

What pathos in that word compared with the fate which it failed to propitiate!

Probably he was anxious to propitiate her with regard to whatever Bertha might be writing about.

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Synonyms for propitiate

Antonyms for propitiate

appeased

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assuage

atone

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Synonyms for propitiate

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