Both Uses of
propensity
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- The former buffoon showed an insolent propensity for making buffoons of others.†
Chpt 1 *
- He did not know me, not even my sex, at that moment, at the moment of passion, perhaps, inflamed by wine, and he has only transmitted to me a propensity to drunkenness—that's all he's done for me….†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(propensity) an inclination to behave in a certain way