Propitiation

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Propitiation is the act of appeasing or making well-disposed a deity, thus incurring divine favor or avoiding divine retribution. It is related to the idea of atonement and sometime mistakenly conflated with expiation.^[1] The discussion here encompasses usage only in the Christian tradition.