propension
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of propension
1520–30; < Latin prōpēnsiōn- (stem of prōpēnsiō ) inclination. See propense, -ion
Example Sentences
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What then gives so great a propension to ascribe an identity to these successive perceptions, and to suppose ourselves possessed of an invariable and uninterrupted existence through the whole course of our lives?
From Hume (English Men of Letters Series) by Thomas Henry Huxley
King James of Scotland, who with but few regal qualities, yet certainly had a propension to literature, and was an encourager of learned men, took Mr. Alexander early into his favour.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume I. by Theophilus Cibber
Twould be rare Could you perswade me to't, I can find No such propension in my selfe; beware Least in this wildnes you ingage your heart To one cannot accept it.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
The harshness of a stepmother, and her own indulged propension to vice, cast her headlong into the greatest disorders.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler
There is properly no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity in different; whatever natural propension we may have to imagine that simplicity and identity.
From A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
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