propitious

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Favorable; advantageous.

   Propitious weather.

2. 2
   adj

   Characteristic of a good omen.

   But counterrevolutions are reversible. Klein devotes much of her book to propitious signs that this can happen — indeed is happening.

From Anglo-Norman and Old French propicius, from Latin propitius (“favorable, well-disposed, kind”). Compare French propice, Portuguese propício and Spanish propicio.

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