Significats de great propensity en anglès

Rest from labour is, in warm climates, a great propensity, and easily indulged.

The great propensity men have to pride may be considered as another similar phaenomenon.

Michelet always had a great propensity to emotional tenderness.

As a society, we have a great propensity for hand-wringing, for bewailing past social failures and for engaging in communal amnesia.

The great propensity to smoking which prevails throughout the colony, causes an astonishing consumption of this article, and has well repaid the original speculator.

No wonder that in this particular section there is considerable prejudice against the motor on account of its great propensity to stir up the dust.

He was a clever man; a pleasant companion; a careless student; with a great propensity for running into debt, and a partiality for the tavern.

There is a greater propensity to action in such men than they have the means of gratifying.

Men have, in general, a much greater propensity to overvalue than undervalue themselves; notwithstanding the opinion of Aristotle [Footnote: Ethic.