Propitiations

Word PROPITIATIONS
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Definitions and meanings of "Propitiations"

What do we mean by propitiations?

The act of propitiating; placation, atonement, similar to expiation but with the added concept of appeasement of anger.

The death of Christ as a basis for the forgiveness of sin.

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The word "propitiations" in example sentences

If they walk from that land with nothing more than calls for prayer and spiritual propitiations, the people of Ireland have been horribly jilted. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Among Gogo speakers, regular ancestor propitiations involving beer and prayer were held for those buried in the cattle byres kept in homestead courtyards. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But all human efforts, all the lavish gifts of the emperor, and the propitiations of the gods, did not banish the sinister belief that the conflagration was the result of an order. ❋ James F. McGrath (2010)

But all human efforts, all the lavish gifts of the emperor, and the propitiations of the gods did not banish the sinister belief that the conflagration was the result of an order. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Clinton sealed his friendship with the party's grandees by the first of what may be many propitiations. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Some time afterwards, when his authority was laid down, he brought the matter before the senate, and the priests, at the same time, reported, out of the sacrifices, that there were intimations of divine anger, requiring propitiations and offerings. ❋ Plutarch (2003)

By such dreadful propitiations, by such dire and accursed sacrifices, at the thought of which human nature shudders, would you appease the offended Deity? ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)

Government must make no more offerings of musical clocks to the Pagan temples; for such propitiations are understood by the people to mean -- that we admit their god to be naturally stronger than ours. ❋ Various (N/A)

They are essentially religious, symbolic, mystic, subtle, full of fears and propitiations, involved, often based on the forgotten, -- altogether unlike in their approach to the ingenuous and confident child. ❋ Lucy Sprague Mitchell (1922)

Prompted as offerings on graves originally are by affection for the deceased, it naturally happens that such propitiations are made more by relatives than others. ❋ Various (1910)

When, therefore, sacrifices either of the altar or of alms of any sort are offered on behalf of the dead who have been baptized, they are thanksgivings for the very good; they are propitiations [_propitiationes_] for the not very bad; and for the case of the very bad, even though they do not assist the dead, they are a species of consolation to the living. ❋ Joseph Cullen Ayer (1905)

First Browning was not a sceptic with respect to the truths attained through love, and he held that mankind had already attained through love truths that condemned the religion of self-torture and terrified propitiations, which led Leonce Miranda to reduce his right hand and his left to carbonised stumps and dragged him kneeling along the country roads to manifest his devotion to the image of the Virgin. ❋ Dowden, Edward (1904)

And he put down his pheasant _salmi_ with a clatter, while his wife handed him bread and other propitiations. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)

In the midst of his propitiations Letty turned upon him. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)

Wharton's society which this dislike had promoted, that Wharton's long stay at Mellor was largely owing -- did Aldous subdue himself to propitiations and amenities wholly foreign to a strong character long accustomed to rule without thinking about it. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)

Meanwhile, in spite of her dignity and those inward propitiations it from time to time demanded, she was, in her human vivid way, full of an excitement and curiosity she could hardly conceal as perfectly as she desired -- curiosity as to the great house and the life in it, especially as to Aldous Raeburn's part therein. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)

They "made remembrance of sins" (ver. 3), writing always anew upon the conscience of the worshipper the certainty that sin, in its form of guilt, is a tremendous reality in the court of God, that it calls importunately for propitiation, while yet animal propitiations can never, by their very nature, be really propitiatory of themselves. ❋ Unknown (1880)

Its propitiations were of a kind which, in the nature of things, could not properly and in the way of virtual force set the conscience free from the sense of guilt, "perfecting the worshipper conscience-wise." ❋ Unknown (1880)

Ebrard says, The mediation between man and God, who was present in the Most Holy Place, was revealed in three forms: (1) In sacrifices (typical propitiations for guilt); (2) ❋ Unknown (1871)

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