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Apotropaic

Apotropaic meaning

Intended to ward off evil.

Synonyms of Apotropaic

Example sentences (3)

Here we have an apotropaic situation, where a god originally bringing the plague was invoked to end it.

Religion was possibly apotropaic; specifically, it may have involved sympathetic magic.

These were apotropaic meaning they were intended to ward off evil.