Definitions for propitiate

propitiate pro·pi·ti·ate

Spelling: [pruh-pish-ee-eyt]
IPA: /prəˈpɪʃ iˌeɪt/

Propitiate is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 369 anagrams from letters in propitiate (aeiiopprtt).

Definitions for propitiate

verb (used with object)

  1. to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate.

Origin of propitiate

1635-45; Latin propitiātus, past participle of propitiāre to appease. See propitious, -ate1

Examples for propitiate

Yet the Brahman needed the Sudra, and had to propitiate him in order to use him.

I told him I did, and it was because I did and meant to do so to the last, that I would not stoop to propitiate any of them.

“Your God must be hard to propitiate,” said the young Jewess.

For the rest, I trust to myself to propitiate the kindly and to silence the calumnious.

What pathos in that word compared with the fate which it failed to propitiate!

If 'Tildy thought to propitiate Uncle Remus, she was mistaken.

She tried to propitiate the General after her usual manner towards him.

Not in a spirit of contrition, in a way to propitiate his scandalised fellow-citizens.

Do not suppose that I make this confession of my folly to you in order to propitiate the Deity.

Probably he was anxious to propitiate her with regard to whatever Bertha might be writing about.

Word Value for propitiate
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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