propitious
Adjective
Meaning
Convenient; auspicious; favorable; kind; as, a propitious season; a propitious breeze.
Hence, kind; gracious; merciful; helpful; -- said of a person or a divinity.
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Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development; rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery.
In mathematics, as in physics, so much depends on chance, on a propitious moment.
I see less and less.. .I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up.. ..I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf.
We have this day restored the Sovereign to whom alone all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in Heaven, and with a propitious eye beholds his subjects assuming that freedom of thought, and dignity of self-direction which He bestowed on them. From the rising to the setting sun, may His kingdom come.