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- noun Plural form of
propitiator .
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Examples
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Caucasian small business propitiators offer the words, "We cannot wait for affordable medical insurance coverage."
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Miserable little propitiators of a remorseless Idol, how abject we were to him!
David Copperfield 2007
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She was believed to extend goodwill, in the forms of wealth and fecundity, to her propitiators, and statues of her, triple-headed, were erected at crossroads.
Edmund Wilson's Vanished World Menand, Louis 2004
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Miserable little propitiators of a remorseless Idol, how abject we were to him!
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Miserable little propitiators of a remorseless Idol, how abject we were to him!
David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917
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While honourably sheltered and properly nourished the spirit is pleased, and will aid in maintaining the good-fortune of its propitiators.
Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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Miserable little propitiators of a remorseless Idol, how abject we were to him!
David Copperfield 1850
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Miserable little propitiators of a remorseless Idol, how abject we were to him!
David Copperfield Charles Dickens 1841
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Christ makes for us other mediators and propitiators out of the priests and sacrificers, who daily sell their work in the churches.
Apology of the Augsburg Confession Philipp Melanchthon 1528
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Therefore we shall show that they truly make of the saints, not only intercessors, but propitiators, i.e., mediators of redemption.
Apology of the Augsburg Confession Philipp Melanchthon 1528
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