Apotropaic (adj)
ap-o-trop-ay-ik
Supposedly having the power to avert evil influences or bad luck.
Late 19th century from Greek apotropaios ‘averting evil’, from apotrepein ‘turn away or from’ + -ic.
Example sentences
“They believed the apotropaic statues protected them all.”
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