All 5 Uses of
propensity
in
Anna Karenina
- And besides, hard though it was for the mother to bear the dread of illness, the illnesses themselves, and the grief of seeing signs of evil propensities in her children—the children themselves were even now repaying her in small joys for her sufferings.†
Part 3 *
- It was as if darkness had swooped down upon her life; she felt that these children of hers, that she was so proud of, were not merely most ordinary, but positively bad, ill-bred children, with coarse, brutal propensities—wicked children.†
Part 3
- Where does she get such wicked propensities?†
Part 6
- "That proves nothing; it's not a question of evil propensities at all, it's simply mischief," Levin assured her.†
Part 6
- "Then the children's illnesses, that everlasting apprehension; then bringing them up; evil propensities" (she thought of little Masha's crime among the raspberries), "education, Latin—it's all so incomprehensible and difficult.†
Part 6
Definition:
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(propensity) an inclination to behave in a certain way