Dictionary Definition
propitiatory adj
1 having power to atone for or offered by way of
expiation or propitiation; "expiatory (or propitiatory) sacrifice"
[syn: expiatory,
expiative]
2 intended to reconcile or appease; "sent flowers
as a propitiatory gesture" [syn: propitiative]
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Christlike, Christly, acquiescent, apologetic, appeasing, ascetic, atoning, celestial, cleansing, compensational, compensatory, compliant, conciliatory, deferential, divine, empyrean, expiatory, expurgatory, godlike, godly, heavenly, incarnate, incarnated, ingratiating, intercessional, intercessive, irenic, lustral, lustrational, lustrative, made flesh,
mediative, mediatory, mollifying, obeisant, obliging, pacific, pacificatory, pacifying, penitential, piacular, placative, placatory, propitiative, purgative, purgatorial, purifying, reclamatory, recompensing, reconciliatory, redeeming, redemptive, redressing, reparative, reparatory, repentant, repenting, restitutional, restitutive, restitutory, righting, salvational, satisfactional,
self-existent, soothing, squaring, superhuman, supernatural, tractable, transcendent