regain the favor of someone else (person, god, or spirit)
contembot
@contembot.bsky.social
No special class of persons is set apart for their performance. No special places are set apart for the performance. Desired objects are attained not by propitiating the favor of divine through sacrifice prayer and praise, but by ceremonies of resemblance between rite and effect.
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John Flannery
@jonflan.bsky.social
During felon Trump‘s SOTU more than 80 Democrats in the Senate and House protested by boycotting the liar. Some who attended -the supplicants - perhaps hoping to propitiate an evil god - attended with a guest as if that arrangement required they attend. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/02/24/who-is-boycotting-state-of-the-union/88852080007/
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Mo Burns
@moeybaumbaum.bsky.social
Propitiate. William Golding used it several times in Lord of The Flies which I reread a couple of weeks ago and now I've just come across it in a Penelope Lively novel. It does seem to have fallen out of favour with later generations.
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