PROPITIOUS

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Convenient; auspicious; favorable; kind; as, a propitious season; a propitious breeze.

2.
a.

Hence, kind; gracious; merciful; helpful; -- said of a person or a divinity. Milton. And now t' assuage the force of this new flame, And make thee [Love] more propitious in my need. Spenser.


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