propitiation.

An act intended to win favor or avert anger, especially from a deity or powerful being.

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Words that belong together

• an act of propitiation
• ritual propitiation

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The offering was an act of propitiation, not a celebration of the harvest.

He asked what anger the ritual propitiation was meant to avert.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Usually uncountable; plural propitiations for separate acts. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.