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Definition of predilection in English: predilectionnoun ˌpriːdɪˈlɛkʃ(ə)n A preference or special liking for something; a bias in favour of something. 偏好，偏爱 your predilection for pretty girls 你对漂亮女孩的偏爱。 Example sentencesExamples - The Court's reasonings, such as they are, have become a study in personal opinions and predilections.
- Studying biology may yet lead to greater tolerance for the vast repertory of human sexual foibles, preferences, and predilections.
- It is essentially simple, but with enough internal twists and turns to accommodate most predilections and appetites.
- Of course the court will approach those interests with a strong predilection in favour of the preservation of life, because of the sanctity of human life.
- Fortunately, irrespective of my personal predilections, secularism in India is unlikely to flourish, at least in the near future.
- I can't take any credit for it; it's just about helping people understand their own predilections.
- All of her fictions are heavily influenced by scholarship and by the predilections of the cultivated English intellectual and academic class of which she is a part.
- And, as it happens, my verdict on the material collected here is distinctly mixed; but I do not think it a verdict dictated solely by personal predilections.
- She seemed completely up to the interview, however, so there was no reason not to ask at least one tough question, most obviously, about her political predilections.
- His loyalty to the British Government at a time when the National movement was raging and his efforts to shore up a tottering feudal institution were not pure personal predilections or momentary aberrations.
- She has clearly expressed that she has no interest in this, so I've kept my predilection to myself.
- "When making up our mind about this we should come at it calmly and reasonably and set aside our personal grudges and predilections.
- But when you get right down to it, there are personal predilections when it comes to the purchase of any product.
- If they work as a team burying their individual predilections and preferences there is no reason why the team cannot get back its rhythm.
- Certainly, the widespread predilection for the fancy and frivolous has its roots in decades of drab socialist conformity.
- Like every other institution, the Washington and political press corps operate with a good number of biases and predilections.
Synonyms liking, fondness, preference, partiality, taste, penchant, weakness, soft spot, fancy, inclination, leaning, bias, propensity, bent, proclivity, proneness, predisposition, tendency, affinity, appetite, love archaic gusto
OriginMid 18th century: from French prédilection, from Latin praedilect- 'preferred', from the verb praediligere, from prae 'in advance' + diligere 'to select'. Rhymesabjection, affection, circumspection, collection, complexion, confection, connection, convection, correction, defection, deflection, dejection, detection, direction, ejection, election, genuflection, imperfection, infection, inflection, injection, inspection, insurrection, interconnection, interjection, intersection, introspection, lection, misdirection, objection, perfection, projection, protection, refection, reflection, rejection, resurrection, retrospection, section, selection, subjection, transection, vivisection Definition of predilection in US English: predilectionnoun A preference or special liking for something; a bias in favor of something. 偏好，偏爱 my predilection for Asian food Example sentencesExamples - Certainly, the widespread predilection for the fancy and frivolous has its roots in decades of drab socialist conformity.
- I can't take any credit for it; it's just about helping people understand their own predilections.
- His loyalty to the British Government at a time when the National movement was raging and his efforts to shore up a tottering feudal institution were not pure personal predilections or momentary aberrations.
- Of course the court will approach those interests with a strong predilection in favour of the preservation of life, because of the sanctity of human life.
- She seemed completely up to the interview, however, so there was no reason not to ask at least one tough question, most obviously, about her political predilections.
- Fortunately, irrespective of my personal predilections, secularism in India is unlikely to flourish, at least in the near future.
- And, as it happens, my verdict on the material collected here is distinctly mixed; but I do not think it a verdict dictated solely by personal predilections.
- The Court's reasonings, such as they are, have become a study in personal opinions and predilections.
- But when you get right down to it, there are personal predilections when it comes to the purchase of any product.
- She has clearly expressed that she has no interest in this, so I've kept my predilection to myself.
- If they work as a team burying their individual predilections and preferences there is no reason why the team cannot get back its rhythm.
- Studying biology may yet lead to greater tolerance for the vast repertory of human sexual foibles, preferences, and predilections.
- Like every other institution, the Washington and political press corps operate with a good number of biases and predilections.
- "When making up our mind about this we should come at it calmly and reasonably and set aside our personal grudges and predilections.
- All of her fictions are heavily influenced by scholarship and by the predilections of the cultivated English intellectual and academic class of which she is a part.
- It is essentially simple, but with enough internal twists and turns to accommodate most predilections and appetites.
Synonyms liking, fondness, preference, partiality, taste, penchant, weakness, soft spot, fancy, inclination, leaning, bias, propensity, bent, proclivity, proneness, predisposition, tendency, affinity, appetite, love
OriginMid 18th century: from French prédilection, from Latin praedilect- ‘preferred’, from the verb praediligere, from prae ‘in advance’ + diligere ‘to select’. |