Sample Sentences for
predilection
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    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
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    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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    Marilla's astonishment could not have been greater if Matthew had expressed a predilection for standing on his head.  (source)
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    Obviously the Andromeda Strain showed a predilection for cerebral vasculature.  (source)
    predilection = preference or tendency
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    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)
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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)
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    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)
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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
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    If, heretofore, I had been none of the warmest of partisans I began now, at this season of peril and adversity, to be pretty acutely sensible with which party my predilections lay; nor was it without something like regret and shame that, according to a reasonable calculation of chances, I saw my own prospect of retaining office to be better than those of my democratic brethren.†  (source)
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    ...her predilection for a special window at which she always sat in the early evening,  (source)
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    Clyde uttered the names of people dancing past and Edgar commented on their lives and careers and personal predilections.†  (source)
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    It was a predilection of their genetics.  (source)
    predilection = tendency (a predisposition in favor of something)
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    Both ofus were unassailable proof that each of the tribes of Europe had imported their own separate fevers, predilections, and reveries into the capricious, turbulent consciousness of America.†  (source)
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