单词 | propensitude |
释义 | propensituden. 1. Inclination, tendency, or propensity to or towards a person or thing. Cf. propensity n. 1b. archaic and humorous in later use. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > [noun] > favourable inclination propensity1550 propension1592 propensitude1607 propenseness1681 1607 J. Marston What you Will ii. ii An you have a propensitude to him, he shall be for you. 1657 G. G. D'Ouvilly Fals Favourit Disgrac'd iii. i. 55 I both have propensitude to dare, and power to do. 1876 Harper's Mag. Sept. 590/2 You'd better curb them propensitudes of yourn. 2001 Re: Should I Go? in alt.sports.hockey.nhl.vanc-canucks (Usenet newsgroup) 5 June Should I be worried about the whole ‘We're a huge-ass wicked muthafuckin' corporation of money-making propensitude’. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > [noun] > to move in some direction propensity1642 propensitude1683 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 277 If it have a propensitude to one side more than another, the declivety is on that side. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1607 |
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