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unpropitiative en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + propitiative.

Meanings

1. Not propitiative.
   • She is considered, however, an advantageous speculation; but, notwithstanding she came in for her share of the contingent spoils, no inconsiderable trifle for a country practitioner of law, Black was surly and unpropitiative. 1845?, William Gilmore Simms, Life in America: Or, The Wigwam and the Cabin (page 296)
   • All her outward serenity, so unpropitiative and inexorable, had only veiled—even as his own wild ways had veiled—a misery perhaps more complete than his own. 1887, Epoch, volume 2, page 268:

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