All 6 Uses
propensity
in
The Pioneers, by Cooper
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- The former was earnestly occupied in endeavoring to correct, by his precepts, the evil propensities that he had discovered in the Indian during their conversation; to which the latter listened in Profound but respectful attention.†
Chpt 12 *
- "It is marvellous how long the propensities of the savage continue in that remarkable race," said the good divine; "but if he perseveres as he has commenced, his triumph shall yet be complete.†
Chpt 12
- He has a very dangerous propensity for turkey.†
Chpt 17
- Unhappily for the propensity of the steward, breath was as necessary after one of these draughts as after his submersion, and the time at length arrived when he was compelled to let go the bottle.†
Chpt 24
- that epitome of all the unsteady and profitless propensities of the settlers without one of their good qualities to counterbalance the evil!†
Chpt 29
- The exercise and the change soon produced an exhaustion that caused them to remove him to his bed, where he lay for hours, evidently sensible of the change in his comforts, and exhibiting that mortifying picture of human nature, which too plainly shows that the propensities of the animal continue even after the nobler part of the creature appears to have vanished.†
Chpt 40
Definitions:
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(1)
(propensity) tendency or inclination
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)