The act of propitiating; placation, atonement, similar to expiation but also involving the appeasement of anger.
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God
The death of Christ as a basis for the forgiveness of sin.
From Middle English propiciacion, propiciacioun, from Anglo-Norman propiciatiun, Middle French propiciation, propitiation, and their etymon Latin propitiātiō (stem propitiātiōn-). By surface analysis,...
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