propitiating

Verb

propitiate (third-person singular simple present propitiates, present participle propitiating, simple past and past participle propitiated)

1. (transitive) To conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit.
   • Let fierce Achilles, dreadful in his rage,
     The god propitiate, and the pest assuage.1720, Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer, Book 1, lines 191-192

   Synonyms:

   appease

2. (transitive) To make propitious or favourable.
   • But what was that compared to the pleasure of gazing on him, and listening to his words of pity or of praise! to witnessing the sparkling of his eyes when he gazed on his boy, and sought, by every possible medium, to coax him to his arms, a task not to be achieved in a moment; or in listening to...1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter L, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 19
3. (intransitive) To make propitiation.

   Synonyms:

   atone