propense

[ proh-pens ]

adjective

, Archaic.

1. having a tendency toward; prone; inclined.

Other Words From

• pro·pensely adverb
• pro·penseness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of propense¹

1520–30; < Latin prōpēnsus, past participle of prōpendēre to propend

Example Sentences

Propense′ness, Propens′ity, inclination of mind: tendency to good or evil: disposition; Propen′sion, tendency to move in a certain direction.—adj.

From Project Gutenberg

Propense. prō-pens′, adj. leaning towards in a moral sense: inclined: disposed.—adv.

From Project Gutenberg

And indeed all the available testimony represents him as having been so,—upright, honest, and honourable, but haughty, punctilious, litigious, quick to take offence, slow to forget or forgive it, and cursed with a thin-skinned amour propre easily wounded and propense to credit others with the intention of wounding where no such intention existed.

From Project Gutenberg

At last, fear of arrests, his own hunger, the cries of his family for bread, his natural desire to support an irregular life, and a propense hatred to labour, turn but too many an honest tradesman into an arrant desperate rogue.

From Project Gutenberg

At last, fear of arrests, his own hunger, the cries of a family for bread, his natural desire to support an irregular life, and a propense hatred to labour, turn but too many an honest tradesman into an arrant desperate rogue.

From Project Gutenberg