Noun : the propitiation of the wrathful gods. From Dictionary.com.
"propitiation" is the meeting-place; there the controversy on both sides terminates in an honorable and eternal "peace.". From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Matt. 20, 28; it is called a propitiation, Rom. 3, 25, as well as a ransom. From Wordnik.com. [A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians] Reference
From the Chinese notion of sacrifice the idea of propitiation through blood is entirely absent. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
Others do not understand the passage as speaking of holiness, but of propitiation, which is effected once for all. From Wordnik.com. [A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians] Reference
The Greek word here is the same translated "propitiation" in. From Wordnik.com. [Our Man In Heaven: An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews] Reference
The word propitiation means "to satisfy.". From Wordnik.com. [inJesus :: Online Community :: Last posted message] Reference
Providence urged him to a kind of propitiation which was not simply. From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch] Reference
Providence urged him to a kind of propitiation which was not simply a doctrinal transaction. From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch] Reference
Otherwise, too, He could not have been our life (1Jo 4: 9), our "propitiation" (1Jo 4: 10), or our "Saviour". From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Providence — in other words, a public exposure — urged him to a kind of propitiation which was not a doctrinal transaction. From Wordnik.com. [The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete] Reference
“Perhaps it’s a kind of propitiation,” said Sister Apothecaire. From Wordnik.com. [Son of a Witch]
"propitiation" and "expiation" must be pitted against each other as though they were mutually exclusive. From Wordnik.com. [Der Evangelische Theologe] Reference
Our propitiation is our food. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture] Reference
It is said that "He is the propitiation for our sins.". From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
I practise the first and make propitiation for the second. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
They have tried the most extravagant propitiation, and found it useless. From Wordnik.com. [Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works] Reference
April could have shaken her, but it seemed wiser to try propitiation instead. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
These genealogies are sacred and their recitation is a great act of propitiation. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
Years of "anxious propitiation" had left the Muslim world convinced of our weakness. From Wordnik.com. [Fishing for a Way to Change the World] Reference
"Receive the salt of wisdom, and may it be a propitiation to thee for eternal life.". From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 69: 1 John The Challoner Revision] Reference
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. From Wordnik.com. [An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism] Reference
"And he is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.". From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
"He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for our sins only, but also for the sins of the whole world.". From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
"Anxious propitiation" was a fancy name for appeasement, compromising with an enemy that needed confronting. From Wordnik.com. [Fishing for a Way to Change the World] Reference
It is said that "He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.". From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
It is said again that "He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.". From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
There are millions who have not even heard the Saviour's name; but they are included in the great plan of propitiation, and it cannot fail. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
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