PROPITIATION

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The act of appeasing the wrath and conciliating the favor of an offended person; the act of making propitious.

2.
n.

That which propitiates; atonement or atoning sacrifice; specifically, the influence or effects of the death of Christ in appeasing the divine justice, and conciliating the divine favor. He [Jesus Christ] is the propitiation for our sins. 1 John ii. 2.