Propitiation

(n.) The act of appeasing the wrath and conciliating the favor of an offended person; the act of making propitious.

(n.) That which propitiates; atonement or atoning sacrifice; specifically, the influence or effects of the death of Christ in appeasing the divine justice, and conciliating the divine favor.

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• Mr Lammle fell back upon propitiation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He carried his head on one side, partly in modest depreciation of himself, partly in modest propitiation of everybody else. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Their minds were haunted by the idea of sin and the need for bloody propitiations. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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