Meanings of personal predilection in English

After all the question has resolved itself into one of personal predilection.

I am all in favour of it, although my personal predilection is for Mary Pierce.

But is that personal predilection or prudishness?

It may be so, or not; I have long known the idleness of advocating reform on a basis of personal predilection.

Leonardo da Vinci had declared his personal predilection for painting, Michael Angelo for sculpture, but the question had not been philosophically treated before Lessing.

And no fine name for personal predilections or things done in domino!'

And, behold, we are in a world of personal predilections, a thousand miles from absolute values.

' Ay, but I talk not of personal predilections.

He told the crowd that in the US the constitution tended to limit the ability of judges to introduce their own personal predilections.

Nay, if he had personal predilections, they were known to be rather in favour of the Duke of Monmouth than of the Duke of York.

This justification for suppressing speech failed, however, because it "would effectively empower a majority to silence dissidents simply as a matter of personal predilections."

74 seem to abide with me as vividly and graciously as anything; but they are but a detail and it is a very personal predilection.