[with object]To make renewed propitiation for (a person or a sin); to restore (a person) to favour.
Origin
Late 16th century; earliest use found in The New Testament of Jesus Christ. From post-classical Latin repropitiat-, past participial stem of repropitiare to appease (late 2nd cent. in Tertullian), to expiate (Vulgate) from classical Latin re- + propitiāre.