Both Uses of
propensity
in
The Awakening
- Edna often wondered at one propensity which sometimes had inwardly disturbed her without causing any outward show or manifestation on her part.†
Chpt 7 *
- And he related the story of Alcee Arobin and the consul's wife; and another about the tenor of the French Opera, who received letters which should never have been written; and still other stories, grave and gay, till Mrs. Pontellier and her possible propensity for taking young men seriously was apparently forgotten.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(propensity) an inclination to behave in a certain way