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Definition of Proclivity
1. Noun. A natural inclination. "He has a proclivity for exaggeration"
Definition of Proclivity
1. n. Inclination; propensity; proneness; tendency.
Definition of Proclivity
1. Noun. A predisposition or natural inclination, propensity, or a predilection; especially refers to a strong disposition or bent. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Proclivity
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Proclivity
Literary usage of Proclivity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas Hobbes (1841)
"I contend for the truth of this only, that when the will followeth them, they
necessitate the will ; and when a proclivity followeth, they necessitate the ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1891)
"... must now be so familiar to our readers as to render further allusion to it
superfluous. JSC THE proclivity OF WOMEN TO CANCEROUS DISEASES AND TO CERTAIN ..."
3. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"64 proclivity. Sii proclivities are all evil. His tendencies or propensities have
a wrong bias. The word means downhill tendency. ..."
4. St. Paul's Conception of Christianity by Alexander Balmain Bruce (1894)
"This demonstration the apostle supplies in his statement as to the sinful proclivity
of the flesh. The relative section of the Epistle to the Romans is not ..."
5. Right and Duty: Or, Citizen and Soldier; Switzerland Prepared and at Peace by Frederick Arnold Kuenzli (1916)
"But Albrecht's proclivity to tyrannizing over those weaker than himself proved
to be his own undoing. In 1308 he was killed by his ward and nephew, ..."
6. Letters of Thomas Edward Brown: Author of 'Fo'c'sle Yarns' by Thomas Edward Brown (1900)
"I don't see how nature could have done more for a man, and all that I mean by
an ' art' is the perfectly natural proclivity of culture, the process of ..."
7. The Law Magazine and Law Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence by William S. Hein & Company (1862)
"In the South, where even white society includes many gradations and some amount
of distress, the proclivity to a reverent subservience which marks the negro ..."
8. The Newer Criticism and the Analogy of the Faith: A Reply to Lectures by W by Robert Watts (1882)
"... was unknown in pre-exilic times, he would never have written or published
these lectures. Another instance of the Author's proclivity for Generalization ..."
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