propitiatory

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

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

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Wild Galla chieftains, too, were in attendance with propitiatory offerings and outstanding arrears of tribute, and the interior of the palace presented a scene of increased bustle and confusion.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis

Various propitiatory ceremonies are performed by specialists to secure its good-will.

From Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Thurston, Edgar

He already felt the most abject and propitiatory of social outcasts when he came upon Coote, and Coote finished him.

From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)