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Definition of Proclivities
1. proclivity [n] - See also: proclivity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proclivities
Literary usage of Proclivities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. In a New Century by Edward Sandford Martin (1908)
"proclivities AND COMPUNCTIONS TOMLINSON used to say he had all the proclivities
and all the compunctions. He expressed a sense of obligation to his ..."
2. In a New Century by Edward Sandford Martin (1908)
"proclivities AND COMPUNCTIONS TOMLINSON used to say he had all the ... A man with
all the proclivities, no compunctions, and a sound and skilful legal ..."
3. Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum (1901)
"SAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLD CHAPTER IA blue-nose ancestry with Yankee
proclivities — Youthful fondness for the sea — Master of the ship Northern Light ..."
4. The Chinese, and the Chinese Question by James Amaziah Whitney (1888)
"RACIAL proclivities OF THE CHINESE, AND PHYSICAL CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH THEY HAVE
DEVELOPED. We may now pass to a more complex phase of the inquiry ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1880)
"... and whose present hard-headed manufacturing proclivities are not compatible
therewith, and hence produce a mongrel and far from pleasant type of ..."
6. History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American Continent by George Bancroft (1875)
"... nor any further consideration of the bill by the Massachusetts legislature.1 In
his presidency, Hancock had shown proclivities to the south. ..."
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