Both Uses of
predilection
in
The Portrait of a Lady
- It affected her moreover as a peaceful interlude, as a hush of the drum and fife in a career which she had little warrant as yet for regarding as agitated, but which nevertheless she was constantly picturing to herself by the light of her hopes, her fears, her fancies, her ambitions, her predilections, and which reflected these subjective accidents in a manner sufficiently dramatic.†
Chpt 21predilections = preferences (predispositions in favor of something)
- This at any rate was the duty with which she found herself confronted—from the moment she admitted to herself that her old friend had still an uneradicated predilection for her society.†
Chpt 42 *predilection = preference or tendency
Definition:
preference (a predisposition in favor of something); or tendency (normal behavior)