All 4 Uses of
propensity
in
Sense and Sensibility
- I have not had so many opportunities of estimating the minuter propensities of his mind, his inclinations and tastes, as you have; but I have the highest opinion in the world of his goodness and sense.†
Chpt 4
- But of his minuter propensities, as you call them you have from peculiar circumstances been kept more ignorant than myself.†
Chpt 4 *
- In Mrs. Dashwood's estimation he was as faultless as in Marianne's; and Elinor saw nothing to censure in him but a propensity, in which he strongly resembled and peculiarly delighted her sister, of saying too much what he thought on every occasion, without attention to persons or circumstances.†
Chpt 10
- Each faulty propensity in leading him to evil, had led him likewise to punishment.†
Chpt 44
Definition:
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(propensity) an inclination to behave in a certain way