单词 | repropitiate |
释义 | repropitiatev. rare. transitive. To make renewed propitiation for (a person or a sin); to restore (a person) to favour. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > atonement > atone for [verb (transitive)] > again repropitiate1582 1582 Bible (Rheims) Heb. ii. 17 That he might repropitiate [L. repropitiaret] the sinnes of the people. a1626 L. Andrewes XCVI Serm. (1629) x. 708 [Absalom was] repropitiate, when he was admitted to the king's presence and kissed him. 1884 C. P. Reichel tr. Origen in Hist. & Claims of Confessional 32 And what is it to repropitiate [L. repropitiare] a sin? When you take the sinner, and..bring him to repentance,..you are then said to have repropitiated [L. repropitiasse] his guilt. 2007 tr. St. Thomas Aquinas in D. C. Klepper Insight Unbelievers ii. 56 It was a sort of throne from which God would listen for repropitiating the people. Derivatives reproˈpitiated adj. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restoration of a person > [adjective] > restored to favour repropitiated1837 1837 Times 10 Jan. 4/3 That nothing might be wanting to secure South Northumberland by the repropitiated influence of Papists and Radicals [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1582 |
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