apotropaic

Speech parts

1. apotropaic - Noun

2. apotropaic - Adjective

3. apotropaic - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

having the power to prevent evil or bad luck

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Examples

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

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

These were apotropaic meaning they were intended to ward off evil. Source: Internet

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