Meanings
noun
- pluralplural of propensity
Among the many universal propensities in human nature, the love of sight-seeing is about as universal as any.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 233
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