˜yÐÄvlog

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propense

[ proh-pens ]

adjective

Archaic.
  1. having a tendency toward; prone; inclined.


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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ±è°ù´Ç·±è±ð²Ô²õ±ðl²â adverb
  • ±è°ù´Ç·±è±ð²Ô²õ±ðn±ð²õ²õ noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of propense1

1520–30; < Latin ±è°ùűèŧ²Ô²õ³Ü²õ, past participle of ±è°ùűè±ð²Ô»åŧ°ù±ð to propend
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Propense. prÅ-pens′, adj. leaning towards in a moral sense: inclined: disposed.—adv.

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Propense′ness, Propens′ity, inclination of mind: tendency to good or evil: disposition; Propen′sion, tendency to move in a certain direction.—adj.

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And indeed all the available testimony represents him as having been so,—upright, honest, and honourable, but haughty, punctilious, litigious, quick to take offence, slow to forget or forgive it, and cursed with a thin-skinned amour propre easily wounded and propense to credit others with the intention of wounding where no such intention existed.

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At last, fear of arrests, his own hunger, the cries of his family for bread, his natural desire to support an irregular life, and a propense hatred to labour, turn but too many an honest tradesman into an arrant desperate rogue.

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At last, fear of arrests, his own hunger, the cries of a family for bread, his natural desire to support an irregular life, and a propense hatred to labour, turn but too many an honest tradesman into an arrant desperate rogue.

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