10 letters · 16 points in Scrabble
adjective having the power to prevent evil or bad luck
originFrom Ancient Greek ἀποτρόπαιος (apotrópaios), from ἀπό (apó, “away”) and τρόπος (trópos, “turn”); thus meaning “causing things to turn away”, as in “turns away evil”.
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