Meanings of special predilection in English

Until this memorable event Baden-Powell had expressed no special predilection for soldiering.

Babies used to be thought to have special predilection for Ireland.

Amasis had a special predilection for this kind of monument.

That Bonaparte had a special predilection for the canaille.

All tumors with a known location were situated on the face with a special predilection for the nose.

Floyd was at this period two-and-twenty, a rather grave and reserved young man, with no special predilection for society.

Game, properly so called, of the kind for which Corporal Joliffe amongst others had a special predilection, was not abundant.

The Stieglitz exhibition is one that should have been seen by everyone regardless of any peculiar and special predilection for art.

Although she painted religious subjects for churches, her special predilection is for views of Venice, preferably those in which the gondola appears.

Tyche was worshipped in various parts of Greece, but more particularly by the Athenians, who believed in her special predilection for their city.

He has a special predilection for green; it is the predominant color in the decoration of his room, and everything green appeals to him.

She would not twit Nina by any hint that this assumed liking for the Jews was simply a special predilection for one Jew in particular.

Jan had passed his first test at the head of the list, among twenty-seven competitors, and despite his judge's special predilection for terriers and bulldogs.

"Have you any special predilection for a room eight feet by nine?"

Every illustrator has his special predilections in the matter of materials, just as he has in the matter of methods.

With such a basis acquired, he can afterwards wander into those special byways of book-buying which happen to suit his special predilections.