Word Meanings - PROPITIATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That which propitiates; atonement or atoning sacrifice; specifically, the influence or effects of the death of Christ in appeasing the divine justice, and conciliating the divine favor. He is the propitiation for our sins. 1 John ii. 2. (more

Additional info about word: PROPITIATION

That which propitiates; atonement or atoning sacrifice; specifically, the influence or effects of the death of Christ in appeasing the divine justice, and conciliating the divine favor. He is the propitiation for our sins. 1 John ii. 2. (more info) 1. The act of appeasing the wrath and conciliating the favor of an offended person; the act of making propitious.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROPITIATION)

• Sacrifice
• Offering
• oblation
• immolation
• surrender
• destruction
• atonement
• propitiation
• appeasement
• expiation

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PROPITIATION)

• Reserve
• retain
• appropriate
• withhold

Related words: (words related to PROPITIATION)

• RESERVE
  1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• OFFERER
  One who offers; esp., one who offers something to God in worship. Hooker.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• IMMOLATION
  1. The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated, or sacrificed. Sir. T. Browne. 2. That which is immolated; a sacrifice.
• SACRIFICE
  1. The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite. Great pomp, and sacrifice, and praises loud, To Dagon. Milton. 2. Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victin, or an offering of any kind, laid
• OFFERTURE
  Offer; proposal; overture. More offertures and advantages to his crown. Milton.
• OFFERTORY
  1. The act of offering, or the thing offered. Bacon. Bp. Fell. An anthem chanted, or a voluntary played on the organ, during the offering and first part of the Mass. That part of the Mass which the priest reads before uncovering the chalice to
• WITHHOLD
  1. To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action. Withhold, O sovereign prince, your hasty hand From knitting league with him. Spenser. 2. To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition. Forbid who will, none shall
• RETAIN
  1. To belong; to pertain. A somewhat languid relish, retaining to bitterness. Boyle. 2. To keep; to continue; to remain. Donne.
• WITHHOLDMENT
  The act of withholding.
• SURRENDEROR
  One who makes a surrender, as of an estate. Bouvier.
• EXPIATION
  1. The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty. His liberality seemed to have something in it of self-abasement and expiation. W. Irving. 2. The means by which reparation
• DESTRUCTIONIST
  One who believes in the final destruction or complete annihilation of the wicked; -- called also annihilationist. Shipley. (more info) 1. One who delights in destroying that which is valuable; one whose principles and influence tend to destroy
• OBLATIONER
  One who makes an offering as an act worship or reverence. Dr. H. More.
• APPEASEMENT
  The act of appeasing, or the state of being appeased; pacification. Hayward.
• OFFER
  ferre to bear, bring. The English word was influenced by F. offrir to 1. To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up. Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for
• WITHHOLDER
  One who withholds.
• RESERVEE
  One to, or for, whom anything is reserved; -- contrasted with reservor.
• DESTRUCTION
  1. The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation. The Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction. Esth. ix. 5. 'Tis safer to be that
• UNAPPROPRIATE
  1. Inappropriate; unsuitable. 2. Not appropriated. Bp. Warburton.
• APPROPRIATE
  Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
• PROFFER
  forth or forward, to offer; pro forward + ferre to bring. See Bear to 1. To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of; as, to proffer a gift; to proffer services; to proffer friendship. Shak. I reck not what wrong that thou
• SCOFFERY
  The act of scoffing; scoffing conduct; mockery. Holinshed.
• SURRENDER
  To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion. (more info) 1. To yield to the power
• SELF-DESTRUCTION
  The destruction of one's self; self-murder; suicide. Milton.
• UNRESERVED
  Not reserved; not kept back; not withheld in part; unrestrained. -- Un`re*serv"ed*ly, adv. -- Un`re*serv"ed*ness, n.