propitiatory
Example Sentences
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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 James Huneker
And the glory shall be upon the propitiatory, in the holy place of thy prayer.
From The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation by Edward Maitland
In Greece, on the other hand, the three dread sisters are still honoured by propitiatory rites, and they figure frequently in the folk-lore of Bulgaria and Albania.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
