Pander vs Propitiate - What's the difference?
pander | propitiate |
A person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer, especially when male. (Later panderer.)
* 1992 , Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way , Folio Society 2005, p. 190:
An offer of illicit sex with a third party.
An illicit or illegal offer, usually to tempt.
(by extension) One who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another.
* Burke
To offer illicit sex with a third party; to pimp.
To tempt with, to appeal or cater to (improper motivations etc.); to assist in the gratification of.
(dated) To conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit.
* Alexander Pope
As verbs the difference between pander and propitiate
is that pander is to offer illicit sex with a third party; to pimp while propitiate is (dated) to conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit.As a noun pander
is a person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer, especially when male (later panderer).pander
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Alternative forms
* pandarNoun
(en noun)- It was not only the brilliant phalanx of virtuous dowagers, generals and academicians with whom he was most intimately associated that Swann so cynically compelled to serve him as panders .
- Those wicked panders to avarice and ambition.
Verb
(en verb)- His latest speech simply seems to pander to the worst instincts of the electorate.
propitiate
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Verb
(propitiat)- Let fierce Achilles, dreadful in his rage, / The god propitiate , and the pest assuage.