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proneness
noun as in inclination or tendency
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Example Sentences
Only in part, for the innate proneness of the German mind to research must be credited with some share in the result.
One of the first things we hear of the Indians, after their discovery, is their proneness to singing and dancing.
There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
He was the only human being I ever met with who had sufficient self-restraint and resolution to resist this proneness to fatten.
And David, notwithstanding his present proneness to discouragement, was a most winsome boy.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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