Both Uses
propensity
in
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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- This name was given, we are told, in former days, by the good housewives of the adjacent country, from the inveterate propensity of their husbands to linger about the village tavern on market days.†
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- It is remarkable that the visionary propensity I have mentioned is not confined to the native inhabitants of the valley, but is unconsciously imbibed by every one who resides there for a time.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(propensity) tendency or inclination
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)