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Definition of Propitiating
1. propitiate [v] - See also: propitiate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Propitiating
Literary usage of Propitiating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot (1873)
"... and propitiating what was just in the baronet's vexation. He had hit on a more
ingenious mode of parrying than he was aware of. ..."
2. Across Africa by Verney Lovett Cameron, Daniel Oliver (1877)
"Sailing away on the Tanganyika.—Devils' Dwellings.—propitiating the
Spirits.—Slave-hunters. I FOUND it impossible to remain in the house which the Arabs ..."
3. Social Life of the Chinese: With Some Account of the Religious, Governmental by Justus Doolittle (1865)
"propitiating certain two female Demons.—Methods of ascertaining the Sex of unborn
Children. — Difficult Labor. — Use of Puppets.—Turning around the "Strait ..."
4. Social Life of the Chinese: With Some Account of the Religious, Governmental by Justus Doolittle (1865)
"propitiating certain two female Demons.—Methods of ascertaining the Sex of unborn
Children. — Difficult Labor. — Use of Puppets.—Turning around the "Strait ..."
5. Social life of the Chinese by Justus Doolittle (1866)
"propitiating certain two female Demons.—Methods of ascertaining the Sex of unborn
Children. — Difficult Labor. — Use of Puppets.—Turning around the "Strait ..."
6. A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by Andrew Dickson White (1896)
"... modes of propitiating the higher powers were penitential processions, the
parading of images of the Virgin or of saints through plague-stricken towns, ..."
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