unpropitiative
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
un- + propitiative
Adjective[edit]
unpropitiative (comparative more unpropitiative, superlative most unpropitiative)
- Not propitiative.
- 1845?, William Gilmore Simms, Life in America: Or, The Wigwam and the Cabin (page 296)
- 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.
- 1887, Epoch, volume 2, page 268:
- 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.
- 1845?, William Gilmore Simms, Life in America: Or, The Wigwam and the Cabin (page 296)