Uncertainty may be either pernicious or propitious. Reform of perverse subsidies is at a propitious time. They are described as assistants of Durga having sinister as well as propitious characteristics. People regard this day as a propitious day for starting a new enterprise. The robustness and opportuneness functions address, respectively, the pernicious and propitious facets of uncertainty. Its meaning is propitious as well as cautionary. The timing of the Vega was propitious. "mersta auei, mersta angla, esona" VIa 3&colon; most propitious birds (auspices), most propitious singing, divine. It is served as a dessert in propitious ceremonies. In general, Yingzong was still a propitious monarch. The time appeared to be a propitious one for such a collection. Shortly after stepping down, Lin was awarded the Order of Propitious Clouds. The Order of Propitious Clouds was awarded to twenty persons between 1943 and March 1945. Chang was awarded the Order of Propitious Clouds, First Class in September 2018. The Order of Propitious Clouds () is a civilian order of the Republic of China.