Both Uses of
propitious
in
A Room of One's Own
- But what is the state of mind that is most propitious to the act of creation?†
Chpt 3 *
- And this susceptibility of theirs is doubly unfortunate, I thought, returning again to my original enquiry into what state of mind is most propitious for creative work, because the mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent, like Shakespeare's mind, I conjectured, looking at the book which lay open at ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(propitious) favorable (circumstances suggesting good things to come)