Sample sentences for PREDILECTION

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Definition

preference (a predisposition in favor of something); or tendency (normal behavior)

predilection = preference or tendency

predilection = preference or tendency

a predilection for expensive cars
Langdon rolled his eyes at Sophie, well accustomed to Teabing's predilection for dramatic antics.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code

predilection = tendency or preference (a predisposition in favor of something)

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.
Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye

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.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things

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.
Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Anne Of Green Gables

predilection = preference or tendency

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.
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible

predilection = preference

predilection = tendency (a predisposition in favor of something)

...her predilection for a special window at which she always sat in the early evening,
Albert Camus -- The Plague

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!
Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

predilections = preferences (predispositions in favor of something)

The Radleys, welcome anywhere in town, kept to themselves, a predilection unforgivable in Maycomb.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

predilection = preference or tendency

Obviously the Andromeda Strain showed a predilection for cerebral vasculature.
Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain

predilection = preference or tendency

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.
Douglas Adams -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

predilection = preference or tendency

To please her, as if she were still living, he adopted her predilections, her ideas; he bought patent leather boots and took to wearing white cravats.
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
Why should not such a predilection be encouraged!
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans
Sadly, neither economic development nor the rise of education and a middle class seems to have affected the predilection for aborting female fetuses.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
Clyde uttered the names of people dancing past and Edgar commented on their lives and careers and personal predilections.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
Every one of them imagined the scene, each according to his own predilections—Sula underneath some white man—and it filled them with choking disgust.
Toni Morrison -- Sula
He laid out all of Seabiscuit's predilections and weaknesses in great detail.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit

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