Synonym: expiative, expiatory, propitiative. Similar words: propitiate, propitiation, propitious, initiator, retaliatory, conciliatory, approbatory, pitiable. Meaning: adj. 1. having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation 2. intended to reconcile or appease.
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1, She saw the flowers as a propitiatory offering.
2, He sent her flowers as a propitiatory gesture.
3, We saw earlier the strong propitiatory element in the religion of the Germanic pagans with whom St Boniface dealt in the 720s.
4, The propitiatory system of the Jews is well known.
5, This paper proposes a tentative notion of "propitiatory state" to describe the current relationship between the state and the labor in China.
6, He died on the cross as a substitutionary, propitiatory sacrifice for the sins of God's people.
7, Perhaps he knows, as I do,(http://sentencedict.com/propitiatory.html) that the letters are propitiatory.
8, And thou shalt set the altar over against the veil, that hangeth before the ark of the testimony before the propitiatory wherewith the testimony is covered, where I will speak to thee.
9, Good for sensitive, agnail skin and take it into calm, propitiatory situation.
10, The grandees took refuge in their country houses—it was such a group whom Boccaccio imagined telling each other the tales in his “Decameron”—or hastened to promise propitiatory legacies to the church.
More similar words: propitiate, propitiation, propitious, initiator, retaliatory, conciliatory, approbatory, pitiable, vitiate, initiate, aviator, initiation, initiative, amatory, oratory, dilatory, minatory, lavatory, mandatory, aleatory, nugatory, malapropism, propinquity, mediator, radiator, purgatory, placatory, crematory, laudatory, predatory.