Both Uses of
proclivity
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- But with the self-combating proclivity of the supersensitive, an answer thereto arose in Clare's own mind, and he almost feared it.
Chpt 5 *proclivity = tendency
- Nevertheless, the visit of Angel Clare to her well-paying tenants, Mr and Mrs d'Urberville, as she deemed them, was sufficiently exceptional in point of time and manner to reinvigorate the feminine proclivity which had been stifled down as useless save in its bearings to the letting trade.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
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(proclivity) a tendency, inclination, preference, or strength