favourableness

Updated: June 25, 2025

Vague presentiments hung about him all day, whether in the House of Commons or elsewhere, and it was not till he found himself on his legs at a crowded meeting at Rotherhithe, violently attacking the Government Bill and the House of Lords, that he recovered that easy confidence in the general favourableness of the universe to Harry Wharton, and Harry Wharton's plans, which lent him so much of his power.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Marcella

The Roman general did the same, induced by necessity, rather than by the favourableness of the occasion.

Livy - The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36