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predilection
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The Scarlet Letter
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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.†
p. 40.5

predilections = preferences (predispositions in favor of something)

Definitions:

(1) (predilection)
preference (a predisposition in favor of something); or tendency (normal behavior)
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)