(a.) Having power, or intended, to make expiation; atoning; as, an expiatory sacrifice.
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Propitiatory
Definition:
(a.) Having the power to make propitious; pertaining to, or employed in, propitiation; expiatory; as, a propitiatory sacrifice.
(n.) The mercy seat; -- so called because a symbol of the propitiated Jehovah.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seeing old Kuhn, a religious man, praying aloud and thanking God he has been spared selection for the gas chamber, Levi is furious that Kuhn does not realise it will be his turn next, that "what has happened today is an abomination, which no propitiatory power, no pardon, no expiation by the guilty, which nothing at all in the power of man can ever clean again … If I was God, I would spit at Kuhn's prayer."
(2) Observes Freud that, as a child bearer, a woman is more involved with sexual functions--thus placing her at the pulsional pole of culture which reduces a propitiatory space for sublimation processes.