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Definition of Predispositions
1. predisposition [n] - See also: predisposition
Lexicographical Neighbors of Predispositions
Literary usage of Predispositions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Introduction to the Study of Sociology by Edward Cary Hayes (1918)
"In the wording of our list of predispositions it is not necessary to distinguish
between these tendencies as they are felt by the subject and as they are ..."
2. Introduction to the Study of Sociology by Edward Cary Hayes (1915)
"In the wording of our list of predispositions it is not necessary to ...
The predispositions may be divided into three groups: those which are evoked by ..."
3. A System of Psychology by Daniel Greenleaf Thompson (1884)
"Here pain from deprivation and pleasure from gratification are certain results,
made primary organic necessities of experience through predispositions ..."
4. Health and Disease in Relation to Marriage and the Married State by Hermann Senator, Siegfried Kaminer (1904)
"Ill CONGENITAL AND INHERITED DISEASES AND predispositions TO DISEASE By Professor J.
Orth (Berlin) IN order to obtain a clear conception of the occurrences ..."
5. A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use by Austin Flint (1873)
"... and Intercurrent Мм-ases—Predisposing and Exciting Causes—Congenital and
Inherited predispositions to Ш*еа*е—-Co-operating Causes—Diathesis—Cachexia or ..."
6. A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use by Austin Flint (1867)
"Complications and Inter- current Disease.«—Predisposing and Exciting Cause?—Congenital
and Inherited predispositions to Disease—Co-operating ..."
7. Narrative of the travels and adventures of monsieur Violet, in California by Frederick Marryat (1843)
"... state (the principal and physical cause of their fierceness and ferocity), it
is no wonder that they fell victims, with such predispositions to disease. ..."