Both Uses
propensity
in
Great Expectations
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- And Herbert had seen him as a predatory Tartar of comic propensities, with a face like a red brick, and an outrageous hat all over bells.†
p. 406.1 *
- But in a fatal moment, yielding to those propensities and passions, the indulgence of which had so long rendered him a scourge to society, he had quitted his haven of rest and repentance, and had come back to the country where he was proscribed.†
p. 487.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(propensity) tendency or inclination
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)