Synonyms for proneness:
noun inclination or tendency
Examples of uses:
I am amused by your proneness to incomprehensible things.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
Only in part, for the innate proneness of the German mind to research must be credited with some share in the result.
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Title: Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, author: Various, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13154/13154-h/13154-h.htm
One of the first things we hear of the Indians, after their discovery, is their proneness to singing and dancing.
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Title: The Indian in his Wigwam, author: Henry R. Schoolcraft, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40475/40475-h/40475-h.htm
There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
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Title: Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865, author: Abraham Lincoln, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14721/14721-h/14721-h.htm
He was the only human being I ever met with who had sufficient self-restraint and resolution to resist this proneness to fatten.
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Title: Byron, author: Richard Edgcumbe, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41809/41809-h/41809-h.htm
And David, notwithstanding his present proneness to discouragement, was a most winsome boy.
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Title: Polly of the Hospital Staff, author: Emma C. Dowd, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15971/15971-h/15971-h.htm
His early proneness to dwell upon the more recondite departments of each science and branch of inquiry has been alluded to above.
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Title: Spare Hours, author: John Brown, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27153/27153-h/27153-h.htm
"To be a martyr yourself, Mistress Ward," I cried, with my ever too great proneness to let my tongue loose from restraint.
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Title: Constance Sherwood, author: Lady Georgiana Fullerton, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40151/40151-h/40151-h.htm
Meta's patient sorrow was the best remedy for proneness to such musings.
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Title: The Daisy Chain, author: Charlotte Yonge, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3610/3610-h/3610-h.htm
Yet the Jew forgets that a thousand years of trial were requisite to cure his ancestors of their proneness to idols.
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Title: Mexico and its Religion, author: Robert A. Wilson, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21430/21430-h/21430-h.htm
