All 4 Uses of
propitious
in
The House of Mirth
- The surrounding atmosphere was propitious to this scheme of courtship.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- The terrace at Bellomont on a September afternoon was a spot propitious to sentimental musings, and as Miss Bart stood leaning against the balustrade above the sunken garden, at a little distance from the animated group about the tea-table, she might have been lost in the mazes of an inarticulate happiness.†
Chpt 1.4
- Mrs. Bry, who had a tendency to grow red and stertorous after luncheon, had been judiciously prevailed upon by Carry Fisher to withdraw to her hotel for an hour's repose; and Selden and his companion were thus left to a stroll propitious to confidences.†
Chpt 2.1
- He glanced at the dirty and unpropitious corner on which they stood, with the shriek of the "elevated" and the tumult of trams and waggons contending hideously in their ears.†
Chpt 2.10
Definition:
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(propitious) favorable (circumstances suggesting good things to come)