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発音

• IPA: /pɹəˈpɛnʃ(ə)n/

名詞

propension (plural propensions)

1. (archaic) Propensity.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:predilection

   • c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], signature D3, recto:

     But I aſſeſt the gods, your full conſent, / Gaue vvings to my propenſion, and cut off / All feares attending on ſo dire a proiect, […]

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     As for me, my tast is strangely distasted to it's propensions, which in us are produced without the ordinance and direction of our judgement.

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