propense

Latin propensus (“hanging forward”)

• Rhymes: -ɛns

propense (comparative more propense, superlative most propense)

1. (archaic) Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone

   women propense to holiness

   • 1739, David Hume, Treatise of Human Nature Book 3: Of Morals

     The most immediate effects of pleasure and pain are the propense and averse motions of the mind; which are diversified into volition, into desire and aversion, grief and joy, hope and fear

   • 1668, Desiderius Erasmus, translated by John Wilson, The Praise of Folly

     […] women are so earnestly delighted with this kind of men, as being more propense by nature to pleasure and toys.

• propensely
• propenseness

• propense in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• Epperson, prepones, propenes

propense

1. Feminine plural of adjective propenso.

propense

1. feminine plural of propenso

prōpense

1. vocative masculine singular of prōpensus

• propense in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• propense in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers