Meanings
nounprædilection (plural prædilections)
plural prædilections
- obsoleteObsolete spelling of predilection.
A remarkable proof of the general uſe of trial by combat, and of the prædilection for that mode of deciſion occurs in the laws of the Lombards.
1769, William Robertson, The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] W. and W. Strahan, for W[illiam] Strahan, T[homas] Cadell, […]; and J. Balfour, […], →OCLC
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