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unproˈpitious, a.
(un-1 7.)
1699Pomfret To Another Friend 12 Beneath the pond'rous Weight Of angry Stars, and unpropitious Fate. 1702Addison Dial. Medals ii. (1726) 65 Ye sue the unpropitious maid in vain. 1776Mickle Camoen's Lusiad Introd. 149 In the unpropitious age of a Cromwell. 1847Helps Friends in C. I. 39 The whole life appears to be shut up in the one unpropitious affection. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 425 Sleep and exercise are unpropitious to learning.
Hence unproˈpitiousness.
1844W. H. Smyth Cycle Celestial Obj. II. 6 Had this been done, every notion of stellar unpropitiousness and malevolence must have vanished. |