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Definition of Propitiated
1. propitiate [v] - See also: propitiate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Propitiated
Literary usage of Propitiated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... they are said to have propitiated The Irish were then pagans, but not barbarians.
Their roads were indeed ill-constructed, their wooden dwellings rude, ..."
2. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"... was hoped that the public sentiment would be propitiated, and general harmony
restored ; but new elements of strife had ..."
3. Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden (1906)
"Jakun it is the Camphor-tree Spirit which has to be propitiated ; and the use of
the taboo jargon is only one part of the necessary ritual, ..."
4. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"Her husband was very far from the opinion that the gods and goddesses were more
easily propitiated by devotions paid before beautiful Grecian statuary than ..."
5. The Popular History of England: An Illustrated History of Society and by Charles Knight (1874)
"... and execution of the duke of Norfolk—Troubles of Scotland—The Huguenots of
France propitiated by the marriage of the prince of Navarre —Coligny shot—The ..."
6. Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States by Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1835)
"... influence of emigrants at the elections—This influence concentrated in the
priests-^-The priests must be propitiated—By what means—This influence easily ..."
7. The Metropolitan (1832)
"Martin Brophy did not leave that house till, in an humbled, contrite, and chastened
spirit, he had worthily propitiated Heaven's forgiveness, ..."
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