Definition of Predispositions

1. Noun. (plural of predisposition) ¹

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Definition of Predispositions

1. predisposition [n] - See also: predisposition

Lexicographical Neighbors of Predispositions

prediscover
prediscovered
prediscoveries
prediscovering
prediscovers
prediscovery
prediscussed
prediscussion
predisponencies
predisponency
predispose
predisposed
predisposes
predisposing
predisposition
predispositions (current term)
predissected
predissociation
predissociations
predistressed
predistribution
preditor
preditors
predive
predjudice
predjudices
prednimustine
prednisolone
prednisolones
prednisone

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. ..."

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