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  • adjective Not having been propitiated; unappeased.

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un- +‎ propitiated

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Examples

  • Of course the services of a doctor were always accepted when an Indian fell ill; otherwise the invalid's death would surely ensue, brought about by the evil influence that was unpropitiated.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • Portnoy takes her to Athens, but she is unpropitiated.

    The form of modern degradation 2009

  • Portnoy takes her to Athens, but she is unpropitiated.

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • Of course the services of a doctor were always accepted when an Indian fell ill; otherwise the invalid's death would surely ensue, brought about by the evil influence that was unpropitiated.

    Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

  • The distinction between the creative supreme Deity of the savage, unpropitiated by sacrifice, and the waning, easily-forgotten, cheaply propitiated ghost of a tribesman is vital and essential.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • Father Sweeny received these consolations with an unpropitiated grunt.

    Mount Music Martin Ross 1888

  • Among these was again the excellent Richardson, who seems to have been wholly unpropitiated by the olive branch held out to him in the Jacobite's Journal.

    Fielding Dobson, Austin 1883

  • Richardson, who seems to have been wholly unpropitiated by the olive branch held out to him in the _Jacobite's Journal_.

    Fielding Austin Dobson 1880

  • Remembering the sentence incurred, in far less superstitious times, by the generals at Arginusai, it is impossible to believe that any conclusion which left Patroklos's manes unpropitiated, and the mutilated corpse of Hektor unransomed, could have satisfied either the poet or his hearers.

    Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology 1872

  • Of course the services of a doctor were always accepted when an Indian fell ill; otherwise the invalid's death would surely ensue, brought about by the evil influence that was unpropitiated.

    Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Volume 1 Philip Henry Sheridan 1859

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