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proneness

How to use proneness in a sentence

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.

BYRONRICHARD EDGCUMBE

And David, notwithstanding his present proneness to discouragement, was a most winsome boy.

His early proneness to dwell upon the more recondite departments of each science and branch of inquiry has been alluded to above.

"To be a martyr yourself, Mistress Ward," I cried, with my ever too great proneness to let my tongue loose from restraint.

CONSTANCE SHERWOODLADY GEORGIANA FULLERTON

Meta's patient sorrow was the best remedy for proneness to such musings.

Yet the Jew forgets that a thousand years of trial were requisite to cure his ancestors of their proneness to idols.

There is not in human nature a more odious disposition than a proneness to contempt, which is a mixture of pride and ill-nature.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985