propitiation
- n the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity
- n the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity)
- To the ancients, wind and sun, sea and forest grove seemed to be informed by inscrutable spirits to whom, in awe and propitiation, they gave human personality and shape.
- Brahmin priests performed propitiation ceremonies to the goddess of earth and the god of destruction.
- Meanwhile in the Papal State some 50,000 Italians were present at St Peter's and in the adjoining piazza, when Pope Pius XI celebrated a mass of "expiation, propitiation and .