1. The act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity
   - placation, conciliation 
2. The act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity)
   - expiation, atonement

Derived forms: propitiations

See also: propitiate

Type of: appeasement, calming, redemption, salvation

Encyclopedia: Propitiation

• unpredicted
• unpredictive
• unprejudiced
• unpremeditated
• unprepared
• unprepossessing
• unpresentable
• unpresidential
• unpressed
• unpretending
• unpretentious
• unpretentiously
• unpretentiousness
• unpreventable
• unpriestly
• unprincipled
• unprintable
• open-end wrench
• open-ended
• open-eyed
• open-face sandwich
• open-faced
• open-heart surgery
• open-hearth
• open-hearth furnace