propitiation

About 0.25 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The act of propitiating; placation, atonement, similar to expiation but also involving the appeasement of anger.
2. noun The death of Christ as a basis for the forgiveness of sin.

Similar words

conciliation atonement expiation placation piation attonement assuagement reappeasement pacation palliation

Often followed by

for of and through to is or in by

Word family

propitiations