Antonyms for propitiate

Grammar : Verb

Spell : pruh-pish-ee-eyt

Phonetic Transcription : prəˈpɪʃ iˌeɪt

Definition of propitiate

Origin : 1580s, a back-formation from propritiation and in part from propitiate (adj.), from Latin propitiatus, past participle of propitiare "appease, propitiate" (see propitiation). Related: Propitiated; propitiating; propitiatingly; propitiable (1550s).

verb conciliate
verb pacify

Example sentences :

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.
Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens

Not in a spirit of contrition, in a way to propitiate his scandalised fellow-citizens.
Extract from : « 'Twixt Land & Sea » by Joseph Conrad

She tried to propitiate the General after her usual manner towards him.
Extract from : « Mary Gray » by Katharine Tynan

If 'Tildy thought to propitiate Uncle Remus, she was mistaken.
Extract from : « Nights With Uncle Remus » by Joel Chandler Harris

Yet the Brahman needed the Sudra, and had to propitiate him in order to use him.
Extract from : « A Tour of the Missions » by Augustus Hopkins Strong

“Your God must be hard to propitiate,” said the young Jewess.
Extract from : « Our Little Lady » by Emily Sarah Holt

Do not suppose that I make this confession of my folly to you in order to propitiate the Deity.
Extract from : « Shifting Winds » by R.M. Ballantyne

For the rest, I trust to myself to propitiate the kindly and to silence the calumnious.
Extract from : « The Parisians, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

What pathos in that word compared with the fate which it failed to propitiate!
Extract from : « Harold, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Probably he was anxious to propitiate her with regard to whatever Bertha might be writing about.
Extract from : « The Beth Book » by Sarah Grand

Synonyms for propitiate

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