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predilection

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noun

Predilection is a tendency towards something or a preference for something.

An example of predilection is a preference for expensive and designer items.

predilection

a preconceived liking; partiality or preference (for)

Origin of predilection

French prédilection from Medieval Latin predilectus, past participle of prediligere, to prefer from Classical Latin prae-, before (see pre-) + diligere, to prefer (see diligence)

predilection

noun

A special liking for something; a preference.

Origin of predilection

French prédilection from Old French from Medieval Latin praedīlēctus past participle of praedīligere to prefer Latin prae- pre- Latin dīligere to love ; see diligent .

predilection

Noun

(plural predilections)

Condition of favoring or liking; tendency towards; proclivity; predisposition.

Origin

Borrowing from French prÃ©dilection.

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He showed a predilection for poetry.
The history of his youth reveals no special predilection for the military service - the bent of his mind was political far more than military, but unlike the politicians of his epoch he consistently applied scientific and mathematical methods to his theories, and desired above all things a knowledge of facts in their true relation to one another.
He was already a poet by predilection, an idyllist and steeped in the classical archaism of the time, when, in 1784, his taste for the antique was confirmed by a visit to Rome made in the company of two schoolfellows, the brothers Trudaine.
It may be supposed that this predilection for casuistry stimulated that spirit which impelled Jewish scholars of the middle ages to study or translate the learning of the Greeks.2 Once again it was - from a modern point of view - old-fashioned 1 The whole subject of Jewish legalism should be compared with Islam, where again law and religion are one; as regards the legal aspect, see the extremely suggestive and instructive study, " The Relations of Law and Religion, the Mosque el-Azhar," by J.
The junkie had a predilection for the more illicit things in life.

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