Predilections can be categorized as a noun.
Noun |
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| predilection - a predisposition in favor of something; "a predilection for expensive cars"; "his sexual preferences"; "showed a Marxist orientation" | ||
| predilection - a strong liking; "my own preference is for good literature"; "the Irish have a penchant for blarney" |
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| 1. | noun | A predilection for expensive cars. | |
| 2. | noun | I have a predilection for beef. | |
| 3. | noun | Marilla's astonishment could not have been greater if Matthew had expressed a predilection for standing on his head. | |
| 4. | noun | The logician as such, with his predilection for water-tight compartments in the realm of ideas, is not concerned with what to me as a linguist seems a most important question, viz. how is it to be explained that a sequence of sounds with no meaning at all suddenly from non-connotative becomes connotative, and that this new full meaning is at once accepted by the whole speaking community? | |
| 5. | noun | I have a predilection for beef. | |
| 6. | noun | Marilla's astonishment could not have been greater if Matthew had expressed a predilection for standing on his head. | |
| 7. | noun | The logician as such, with his predilection for water-tight compartments in the realm of ideas, is not concerned with what to me as a linguist seems a most important question, viz. how is it to be explained that a sequence of sounds with no meaning at all suddenly from non-connotative becomes connotative, and that this new full meaning is at once accepted by the whole speaking community? |
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| A predilection for expensive cars. |
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| I have a predilection for beef. | |
| Marilla's astonishment could not have been greater if Matthew had expressed a predilection for standing on his head. | |
| The logician as such, with his predilection for water-tight compartments in the realm of ideas, is not concerned with what to me as a linguist seems a most important question, viz. how is it to be explained that a sequence of sounds with no meaning at all suddenly from non-connotative becomes connotative, and that this new full meaning is at once accepted by the whole speaking community? | |
| I have a predilection for beef. | |
| Marilla's astonishment could not have been greater if Matthew had expressed a predilection for standing on his head. | |
| The logician as such, with his predilection for water-tight compartments in the realm of ideas, is not concerned with what to me as a linguist seems a most important question, viz. how is it to be explained that a sequence of sounds with no meaning at all suddenly from non-connotative becomes connotative, and that this new full meaning is at once accepted by the whole speaking community? | |