All 6 Uses
propensity
in
Jane Eyre
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- They were not bound to regard with affection a thing that could not sympathise with one amongst them; a heterogeneous thing, opposed to them in temperament, in capacity, in propensities; a useless thing, incapable of serving their interest, or adding to their pleasure; a noxious thing, cherishing the germs of indignation at their treatment, of contempt of their judgment.†
p. 19.5
- Yes, Mrs. Reed, to you I owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but I ought to forgive you, for you knew not what you did: while rending my heart-strings, you thought you were only uprooting my bad propensities.†
p. 25.2 *
- She had a turn for traffic, and a marked propensity for saving; shown not only in the vending of eggs and chickens, but also in driving hard bargains with the gardener about flower-roots, seeds, and slips of plants; that functionary having orders from Mrs. Reed to buy of his young lady all the products of her parterre she wished to sell: and Eliza would have sold the hair off her head if she could have made a handsome profit thereby.†
p. 36.6
- What a pigmy intellect she had, and what giant propensities!†
p. 353.6
- How fearful were the curses those propensities entailed on me!†
p. 353.6
- Well, propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.†
p. 410.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(propensity) tendency or inclination
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)