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Definition
an inclination to behave in a certain way
- There was excellent blood in his veins—royal stuff; though sadly vitiated, I fear, by the cannibal propensity he nourished in his untutored youth.Chapters 10-12 -- A Bosom Friend; Nightgown; Biographical (76% in)
- Hereby perhaps Stubb indirectly hinted, that though man loved his fellow, yet man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.Chapters 91-93 -- The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud; Ambergris; The Castaway (88% in)
There are no more uses of "propensity" in Moby Dick.
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