propension
noun/pɹəˈpɛnʃ(ə)n/
Etymology From French propension, and its source, Latin prōpēnsiō, from the participle stem of prōpendeō.
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Archaic Propensity.
- But I aſſeſt the gods, your full conſent, / Gaue vvings to my propenſion, and cut off / All feares attending on ſo dire a proiect, […]c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], signature D3, recto:
- As for me, my tast is strangely distasted to it's propensions, which in us are produced without the ordinance and direction of our judgement.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC: