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    Use "predilection" in a sentence

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    predilection


    1. now understood why she had such a predilection for


    2. They seem, however, to have some predilection for the latter


    3. The funds destined for the maintenance of productive labour are not only much greater in the former than in the latter, but bear a much greater proportion to those which, though they may be employed to maintain either productive or unproductive hands, have generally a predilection for the latter


    4. The beauty of the country, besides, the pleasure of a country life, the tranquillity of mind which it promises, and, wherever the injustice of human laws does not disturb it, the independency which it really affords, have charms that, more or less, attract everybody; and as to cultivate the ground was the original destination of man, so, in every stage of his existence, he seems to retain a predilection for this primitive employment


    5. ” Apply the brakes on your predilection for


    6. us, given your predilection for running off and doing who-knows-what on our time


    7. But it’s not my predilection to go spying on single men in their private moments


    8. come great love which is not choice or predilection, nor attach-


    9. Continued activity, predilection towards worldly life, ( pra, before + vritti,


    10. paternalist; economic necessity, political calculation, and personal predilection combined to set his course in the late 1870’s and 1880’s

    11. This supplied one more reason for their statist predilection


    12. From Venezuelan parents, the eldest of four children, showed since very early years a marked predilection for the genre of novel and short stories


    13. This supper is their last rendezvous with Jesus, and even in such a solemn setting, under the leadership of Judas the apostles are led once more to give way to their old predilection for honor, preference, and personal exaltation


    14. knew of his predilection for the London Times puzzle page


    15. predilection for pranks than its politically powerful alumni


    16. with people who shared the same predilection for computers,


    17. predilection toward greed and selfishness, is coping in a city


    18. He thought that they were just afraid of his predilection for the cane which he used on the hands of girls and bums of boys with gay abandon


    19. protectionism to a decaying company with a predilection for bankruptcy


    20. I know that my predilection to help and protect innocent humans may be anathema to most in the Abyss, but I believe that I could do just that while at the same time sending you dirty souls deserving of your handling

    21. That we hold either explanation as a full and only truth speaks not to our understanding, but our predilection toward


    22. Given Garcia’s predilection for holodecks, risky activities, and beautiful women, why not make him involved in the original incident? What makes the scene difficult is the holodeck safety protocols, and having two people diving from the cliffs


    23. “No, he’s clearly not insane, but one could say that his predilection towards


    24. Jacques wondered about the King’s predilection with Chinese food given his Zulu heritage


    25. Is he tainted before this union ? In Patanjali’s view the Soul is earlier the same as the predilection of the man who embodies


    26. Was it our lack of foresight that blinded us to our poisoning of our waters, or was it Eartheart, striving to fight off humanity the infection, that utilized our predilection for over-consumption, whording, and monergy – the very traits that are destroying her – to poison ourselves?


    27. Getting us addicted to our own predilection of liking to engage in risky and extreme behavior, e


    28. Harald cast his mind around the extended Knowles family and identified Henry as an unpleasant young man with a predilection for greyhounds and gambling


    29. For instance: human slavery is merely the universal predilection of all humans to use other animals including humans only as tools


    30. The Egyptian predilection for worshipping half-animal, half-human entities… or whole living animals like cats… is well known

    31. � However, when we become and remain aware of that predilection of perception, it allows us better access to what we actually observe


    32. it was primarily because of Mengele's predilection for twins in his lifetime, that it chose to


    33. Why should not such a predilection be encouraged! That she was of a blood purer and richer than the rest of her nation, any eye might have seen; that she was equal to the dangers and daring of a life in the woods, her conduct had proved; and now, they added, the "wise one of the earth" had transplanted her to a place where she would find congenial spirits, and might be forever happy


    34. 'You have a predilection for good sailors?'


    35. But certain cows will show a fondness for a particular pair of hands, sometimes carrying this predilection so far as to refuse to stand at all except to their favourite, the pail of a stranger being unceremoniously kicked over


    36. Given LBO sponsors’ predilection toward maximizing net present values for themselves and their LPs it would appear as if the LBO phenomenon contributes little, or nothing, to either growing a target company or making it more creditworthy


    37. used to have a predilection for Bacchus


    38. A predilection of mine that has caused problems at times is to favor stories or companies that are complicated or esoteric


    39. For passe I had always had a sort of predilection, yet I lost my stake upon it


    40. But man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic

    41. And, on his part, he was convinced that I could not exist outside of the life of the world, that a home in the country did not suit me at all, and that he must resign himself to this unhappy predilection


    42. He had taken a “predilection” to her


    43. "The merchant was already in ecstasy," slightly smiling, said Kitaeva, "and he continued to drink and treat himself, but as he was short of money he sent to his room this same Liubasha, for whom he acquired a predilection," she said, looking at Maslova


    44. “He used to have a predilection for Bacchus


    45. I was on one of the carronades, busy with the sun's lower limb, bringing it into contact with the horizon, when the boy's lower limbs brought him into contact with the baboon, who, having, as well as the boy, a strong predilection for bread-and-butter, and a stronger arm to take it withal, thought proper to help himself to that to which the boy had already been helped


    46. Judging therefore, of the feelings of others, by my own, I cannot doubt that many influential French inhabitants of New Orleans entertain a predilection for the country which gave them birth


    47. Many admired her, but that many were not included in the general public, that has no pronounced predilection for club men or club women


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    Synonyms for "predilection"

    orientation predilection preference penchant taste propensity talent bent capacity capability proficiency inclination

    "predilection" definitions

    a predisposition in favor of something


    a strong liking