Peace-offering Synonyms

Something offered to an adversary in the hope of obtaining peace
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. placation
  2. sacrifice
  3. olive-branch
  4. overture
Synonyms:
  1. expiatory offering
  2. expiatory sacrifice
  3. heave offering
  4. piacular offering
  5. piaculum
  6. present
  7. sacramental offering
  8. sacrifice
  9. sin-offering
  10. whole offering
  11. eireinicon
  12. irenics
  13. dove of peace
  14. hand of friendship
  15. outstretched hand

Peace-offering Sentence Examples

  • After four months of war peace was made, and Antiope left with Theseus as a peace-offering.

  • Hedin had sent a necklace as a peace-offering to Hagen, but Hilde persuades her father that it is only a ruse.

  • It is a covenant similar to that of Exodus xxiv., when after the peace-offering of oxen, Moses took the blood in basins and sprinkled half of it on the altar and on twelve pillars erected after the twelve tribes, and the other half on the people, to whom he had first read out the writing of the covenant and said, " Behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words."