Agathemer," he went on, "has left no stone unturned to find some means for placating both clans and for reconciling you with both.
Theories that derive it from the cult of some particular deity or regard it as primarily a day for placating a supernatural Power[996] may be set aside.
He was charged with placating their interests to win them to his political fortunes.
Forgive me, Messere," he said in a placating tone.
I have told you my gold shipment was late getting from Marseilles to Ostia," said Charles in a placating tone.
But beyond the natural religion, which is a passion for oneness with the Whole, all formalized religions engraft the element of fear, and teach the necessity of placating a Supreme Being.
The dreadful prince of the seven madnesses obeyed her, with a placating smile.
Still, Niafer, it is eminently necessary for us to be placating the Philistines in all respects, in this delicate matter of your having a baby.
This notion of the necessity for placating God is to be found in close association with the worthier spiritual instincts to which I have already referred, and it has not even yet disappeared from our thinking.
The idea of placating a manlike God for offences committed against his dignity has been a concomitant of this perception, even a hindrance to it, but it has never wholly obscured the truth itself.
Ono Harunaga stood opposed to this idea, but Katagiri Katsumoto, constant to his policy of placating Ieyasu, threw his influence into the other scale.
He rebelled vehemently against the lenient treatment accorded to Ujinori's son after their father's death, and the shogun had difficulty in placating him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "placating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
