predelection

It seem to be constantly filled with people who had minor ailments which I don't mind treating, big attitudes, and a predelection for abusing the resident staff.

You ED folks have my admiration -- and my deepest sympathies. Angry Professor 2008

I too like doing the space art, just the predelection for digital is pretty amazing now, it has it's own properties and, I have been exploring painting.

Working out color ideas... Zillabob 2007

But there is sometimes an eminence of character on which society have such peculiar claims as to controul the predelection of the individual for a particular walk of happiness, & restrain him to that alone arising from the present & future benedictions of mankind.

Letters 1760

He has a predelection for any sharp object, falling headfirst onto the floor, scurrying away when it's feeding time, screaming when it's bedtime (but only for 2 hours) and poking eyes out.

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sexual inappropriateness knows no sexual predelection, friend!

Think Progress » Gingrich: House Leadership Would Have Been Accused Of ‘Gay Bashing’ If They Investigated Foley ‘Overly Aggressively’ 2006

Lady Tillotson knew not how to endure a society for which she conceived a sincere antipathy, nor could she reconcile Sir Henry’s fine qualities with the predelection he shewed for a fellow so truly his opposite.

The Irish Guardian, or, Errors of Eccentricity 1809