propitiation

I made the sign of propitiation, and it seemed he said to me, "Pass, friend."

It is my own belief that the earth spirits need no special propitiation.

"They're really very good, you know," he added, with a rather nervous smile of propitiation.

All was propitiation from the highest to the lowest.

But for this she might have been described as the very pink of general propitiation and politeness.

Propitiation is an apathy effort to hold away a dangerous "source" of pain.

Most festival activity in February pertained to the care and propitiation of the dead.

Such natives, whether real or hypothetical, undoubtedly had their own rituals of propitiation.

The doctrine states that Jesus died as a propitiation for the benefit of mankind without exception.

There were certain rites to be performed, in propitiation of the Dark Father.

He evidently sought in this crusade propitiation for the political sins of his youth.

His arms were spread wide, hands open, in a gesture of propitiation and utmost vulnerability.

They offered daily propitiation to both the All and the lesser forces with which they dealt.

The ghosts needed no propitiation that Marika could see.

The word is also used in the New Testament for the place of propitiation, the "mercy seat".

These leavings were made in propitiation of a much older God than the Christian one.

If Dana can affect me the way she is tonight, she deserves propitiation.

He would burn incense at the fortress, in propitiation.

And He is the propitiation for our sins."

With the offerings on a tray, she or he dances in propitiation and repeats the sequence three times.

The mechanism of propitiation carries with it covert hostility.

They are holding actions, but also acts of propitiation that lay bare the writer's creative conflicts.

Okeus was believed to be a wrathful god who required propitiation.

Heart of Jesus, propitiation for our offenses.

Next, the two words, "expiation" and "propitiation" present problems.