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- verb Present participle of
propitiate .
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Examples
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This did not occur to me with the idea of propitiating her as an offended goddess, sacrifices being out of date in the existing era -- except those to Moloch!
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Under these circumstances, Canute conceived the idea of propitiating the Saxon portion of the population, and combining, so far as was possible, the claims of the two lines, by making the widow Emma his own wife.
King Alfred of England Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879 1849
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Under these circumstances, Canute conceived the idea of propitiating the Saxon portion of the population, and combining, so far as was possible, the claims of the two lines, by making the widow Emma his own wife.
King Alfred of England Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841
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It is true that even a small number of successful prosecutions can have a strong deterrent effect, as well as propitiating the local indignation about abuses.
David Isenberg: Putting the Contract in Private Security Contractors David Isenberg 2010
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Most people with connections to Dolgyal have come to understand that propitiating him undermines the cause of Tibet, compromises the personal security of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and brings harm to the individual propitiator himself or herself.
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Throne-holder, and the tutor of the seventh Dalai Lama, used his authority to prohibit the practice of propitiating negative worldly spirits and ordered the destruction of the temples for propitiating such spirits.
Concerning Dholgyal with reference to the views of past masters and other related matters 2010
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Some unstable lamas, former abbots, and monastic hostels (khangtsens) did practice in relation to it simply by invoking and propitiating it.
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Due to Dharmaraja's wrath, the Lamas and former abbots who had been propitiating the spirit were killed and the monastic hostels also suffered many misfortunes.
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Thus, at the time when Je (Tsongkhapa) himself was alive, apart from those dharma protectors who are bound by oath and are mentioned in the tantras themselves, no objects for propitiating or seeking the slightest help of harmful negative worldly spirits who are ghosts, was ever installed within the premises of this monastic seat.
Concerning Dholgyal with reference to the views of past masters and other related matters 2010
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People usually say that in general Gelugpas are not allowed to become Nyingmas and, in particular, once people start propitiating Dholgyal, if they engage in Nyingma practices, Dholgyal will destroy them.
Concerning Dholgyal with reference to the views of past masters and other related matters 2010
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