All 4 Uses of
proclivity
in
The Magic Mountain
- …him a nice daily glass of porter, to be drunk with his snack when he returned from school—a robust brew, as everyone knows, which Dr. Heidekind believed helped build the blood and which, however that might be, Hans Castorp discovered, much to his satisfaction, had a calming effect on his spirits and pleasantly assisted him in his proclivity to "doze"—as his Uncle Tienappel put it—when he would sit with his mouth slightly open, dreaming away without a single firm thought in his head.
Chpt 2.2proclivity = tendency
- In addition there is apparently an active proclivity for catarrh in the upper respiratory system.
Chpt 4.10 *
- Whether that protest still lives within you as well, seeing that you are following the bidding of the local powers—or whether it is not, rather, the body and its evil proclivities that you all too willingly obey …
Chpt 5.5proclivities = tendencies or preferences
- "Our Master of the Lodge"—he pointed at Settembrini—"may wish to claim that all pedagogic proclivities, even the very calling itself, belong to bourgeois humanism—but one must take issue with him there."
Chpt 6.2proclivities = tendencies
Definition:
a tendency, inclination, preference, or strength