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predilection
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  • Langdon rolled his eyes at Sophie, well accustomed to Teabing's predilection for dramatic antics.  (source)
    predilection = tendency or preference (a predisposition in favor of something)
  • This predilection for minding other people's business was time-honored among the people of Salem, and it undoubtedly created many of the suspicions which were to feed the coming madness.  (source)
    predilection = preference
  • the only vestiges left in Mr. L. Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.  (source)
    predilection = preference or tendency
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  • He read greedily but understood selectively, choosing the bits and pieces of other men's ideas that supported whatever predilection he had at the moment.  (source)
    predilection = preference or tendency
  • She had the air of a game warden pointing out an animal in the grass. Taking pride in her ability to predict its movements. Her superior knowledge of its habits and predilections.  (source)
    predilections = preferences (predispositions in favor of something)
  • Obviously the Andromeda Strain showed a predilection for cerebral vasculature.  (source)
    predilection = preference or tendency
  • To be right and throw it away in order to please the predilections of his teachers, that would be the monstrosity!  (source)
    predilections = preferences (predispositions in favor of something)
  • It was a predilection of their genetics.  (source)
    predilection = tendency (a predisposition in favor of something)
  • Clyde uttered the names of people dancing past and Edgar commented on their lives and careers and personal predilections.†  (source)
    predilections = preferences (predispositions in favor of something)
  • ...her predilection for a special window at which she always sat in the early evening,  (source)
    predilection = preference or tendency
  • But without warning, a long way into the woods, he began to berate her with humiliating invective and revolting remarks about her morals and sexual predilections.†  (source)
    predilections = preferences (predispositions in favor of something)
  • Marilla's astonishment could not have been greater if Matthew had expressed a predilection for standing on his head.  (source)
    predilection = preference or tendency
  • He laid out all of Seabiscuit's predilections and weaknesses in great detail.†  (source)
    predilections = preferences (predispositions in favor of something)
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