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Propitiatory

//pɹəʊˈpɪʃɪətəɹɪ// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Intended to propitiate, reconcile, expiate or appease; conciliatory.

    "Hecatombs were early substituted for single victims; and, to render the worship still more propitiatory, these were soon exchanged for human sacrifices."

Adjective
  1. 1
    intended to reconcile or appease wordnet
  2. 2
    having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation wordnet

Etymology

From the Latin propitiātōrius (“atoning; reconciling, propitiating”).

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