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propendency

propendency noun: propensity.

Noun

propendency (countable and uncountable, plural propendencies)

  1. propensity
  2. attentive deliberation
    • admit not of that attention, mora, and propendency of actionsa. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […]...

Forms of propendency

pluralpropendencies

Questions about propendency

What does propendency mean?
Propendency means propensity.
What part of speech is propendency?
Propendency is a noun.
What is the plural of propendency?
The plural of propendency is propendencies.

Words near propendency in the dictionary

  1. propenamide
  2. propenamides
  3. propend
  4. propended
  5. propendencies
  6. propendency
  7. propendent
  8. propending
  9. propends
  10. propene
  11. propenenitrile

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