propension

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Propensity.

   But I aſſeſt the gods, your full conſent, / Gaue vvings to my propenſion, and cut off / All feares attending on ſo dire a proiect, […].

From French propension, and its source, Latin prōpēnsiō, from the participle stem of prōpendeō.

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