MEANING
Intended to win favour or reduce anger, especially from a deity or powerful figure.
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- propitiatory offering
- propitiatory ritual
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They left a propitiatory offering at the entrance to the cave.
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- propitiatory
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Primary category: horror / gothic. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: uncommon.
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