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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
propitiate .
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Examples
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Since these deities experience these emotions, they are thought to be partial and can be enrolled in actions performed on behalf of the person or the group who propitiates them.
The Shuk-den Affair: Origins of a Controversy (Part II) 2010
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Since these deities experience these emotions, they are thought to be partial and can be enrolled in actions performed on behalf of the person or the group who propitiates them.
The Shuk-den Affair: Origins of a Controversy (Part II) 2010
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Since these deities experience these emotions, they are thought to be partial and can be enrolled in actions performed on behalf of the person or the group who propitiates them.
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Since these deities experience these emotions, they are thought to be partial and can be enrolled in actions performed on behalf of the person or the group who propitiates them.
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It is our educational system that propitiates the buying and selling of term papers and other forms of cheating.
Educating America: Cheating on papers is a booming Web business 2009
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Rails propitiates a very fine control over the mapping, without losing its simplicity.
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For who of you knows not that the prayer of one who accompanies it with lamentation and tears, with the body prostrate, or with bended knees, propitiates God most of all?
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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They believe that shaving the head of the dead propitiates the deities in their favour.
Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs Jacob Mortimer Wier Silver
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In fact, strange though it may seem at first glance, Dr. Riccabocca had that mysterious something about him which we of his own sex can so little comprehend, but which always propitiates the other.
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various
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It behoveth thee to tell me what indeed, what Mantra it is, which propitiates all malevolent influences, or leads to prosperity or growth, or protection from evil, or the destruction of foes, or the dispelling of fears, and which, at the same time, is consistent with the
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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