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What does propitiation mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of propitiating; placation, atonement, similar to expiation but with the added concept of appeasement of anger.
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They deny both the necessity and the validity of atonement by the death of the Cross, and affirm that its propitiation is not necessary to salvation.
He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but for the whole world.
The first passage tells of the propitiation He made for the sins of the people.
In the context of hunting, young girls are the appropriate instrument for the propitiation of the goddess and the securing of her favour.
They may be very formidable and worthy of propitiation, but they are imperfect.
Yet the tigers of the Chitwan Valley can be elusive in the absence of propitiation by Tharu priests.

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