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Перевод: propitiation

[существительное]
успокоение; умиротворение; примирение; искупительная жертва; умилостивительная жертва

Тезаурус:

1. So Tod's tears were tears of remorse, or propitiation.
2. If such propitiation did not result in the sewing-up of any chinks, at least it stopped new chinks from showing through.
3. Reluctance to displace planners, jurisdictional disputes "resolved" by compromise; consensual decision-making and propitiation of the lite.
4. Propitiation.
5. The priests of the old deities had emerged from the desert or from hiding in neglected provincial cities in Shemau and To-mehu, and established themselves again, without difficulty, the people grateful to have the old gods returned to them, who demanded no more than unquestioning duty, propitiation and sacrifice; gods who did not require a man to think for himself; gods who forgave sin if the price was right, and who guaranteed a good time in the Hereafter.
6. Now it has to be said that the people of that period could at least understand such notions as "sacrifice", "propitiation" and "atonement".
7. Dressing in animal skins for ritual purposes and making divine effigies from straw are favourite Frazerian topics, as is "The Propitiation of Vermin by Farmers".
8. Of course the Latin fathers not only had St Paul's reference to Christ as the propitiation (with its notions of appeasement) for sins, 5 they also had the whole history and logic of the Old Testament to draw on.
9. Non-stop vigilance and propitiation are advisable.