| 单词 | proneness |
| 例句 | The parasite is thought to have different, and often opposite effects in men versus women, but both genders appear to develop a form of neuroticism called “guilt proneness.” My cat really is trying to kill me – and you 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z "Grandiose narcissism has been linked to seeking admiration, manipulativeness, and proneness to hostility when being criticized." There's a subtle "tell" that can reveal if someone is a narcissist, experts say 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z More recent research has explored boredom as an inherent trait — known as boredom proneness — which has a whole host of negative associations. Boredom’s link to mental illnesses, brain injuries and dysfunctional behaviors 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z We should buck commercial considerations to the extent that we can and give the candidates’ competing visions of government as much scrutiny as their competing talents for quips or proneness to gaffes. Opinion | Will the Media Be Trump's Accomplice Again in 2020? 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Yet Kompany’s injury proneness means Guardiola has only three central defenders he can rely on for a position in which his system often requires this number. What Pep Guardiola must do to make Manchester City even better 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z And, third, why you are using tech products influences addiction proneness. Tech Dealers Now Trying to Save the Tech "Addicts" They've Created 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z Fitness remains a concern for the 34-year-old, with his combative style hardly conducive to a player of such injury proneness. Portland and Seattle's MLS attacking fortunes are turning around 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z He surveyed 52 patients who had suffered either mild, moderate or severe TBI, finding that the presence and severity of head trauma predicted levels of boredom proneness. Boredom’s link to mental illnesses, brain injuries and dysfunctional behaviors 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Most research on this topic uses correlational designs, small samples, laboratory conditions, and self-report indices of aggression or violence proneness. Readers Respond to "Wired for Touch" and More 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Though drivers of all ages thwart the texting law, teens comprise the highest risk category of accident proneness. Recent editorials published in Nebraska newspapers 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Lesson 3: Never underestimate an old reprobate’s proneness to sabotage himself with an attraction to fishnet. Jenkins: NBA owners must be held accountable for racist behavior by Donald Sterling 2014-04-27T16:54:56Z It’s this human proneness to shifting moral standards that makes deciphering the motivations of questionable behavior less than crystal clear. Whether Rich Or Poor, Feeling Deprived Makes Us Steal More 2013-10-27T19:08:00Z Studies conducted during the coronavirus pandemic also found that individuals high in boredom proneness had a greater tendency to break the rules of social distancing. Boredom’s link to mental illnesses, brain injuries and dysfunctional behaviors 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Other aspects of people’s thinking seem to interface with boredom proneness. How to Become More Resilient 2013-06-19T18:45:00.630Z This allowed Schaumberg and her colleagues to gauge their "guilt proneness". Why feeling guilty may make you a better boss 2012-11-21T00:33:39Z A Home Office report in 1945 reported that girls saw the US as a "magic country" and that the American "proneness to spoil a girl" made them the most attractive boyfriends. How the GI influx shaped Britain's view of Americans 2012-11-03T00:21:19Z And as to their religion, by what is recorded, it seems that their proneness to worship the gods of their neighbors, is what brought on the chastisements of Heaven. A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion 2012-04-06T02:00:26.317Z Whereupon he: "Methinks the greatest torment a husband might inflict on a worthy wife should be to dishonor her love by his baseness; or if he had injured her, to doubt her proneness to forgive." The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z From his proneness to frequent the tavern's jovial company of topers and gamesters naturally sprang a liberal supply of drinking songs. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z It became clear that the higher someone's level of guilt proneness, the more likely he or she was to step up as a leader in the activity. Why feeling guilty may make you a better boss 2012-11-21T00:33:39Z "Oh yes, thank you," she answered, striving to speak heartily, and repressing with difficulty that proneness of the lip to quiver. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z Help Thy children to recognize their proneness to blunder, that they learn to walk circumspectly. The Optimist's Good Morning 2012-03-15T02:00:23.453Z There are only three, viz. gold, silver, and platinum, which can stand it, and, among these, silver is of little use, on account of its proneness to tarnish under the action of sulphurous gases. British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. 2012-02-26T03:00:18.883Z In him were blended two qualities—vigorous activity and proneness to austere meditation—rarely combined in such measure in one person. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z She and her colleagues assessed participants - again in the US - on their levels of guilt proneness and then set them tasks to measure how ethical their behaviour was. Why feeling guilty may make you a better boss 2012-11-21T00:33:39Z Mrs. Quale gave the explanation, interlarding it with a sharp reprimand at their proneness to think ill of 'their own flesh and blood,' and James Dunn sat down meekly in glad repentance. A Life's Secret A Novel 2012-02-13T03:00:17.060Z Tragedy has become the representation of vice and sin, with a proneness for their foulest entanglements. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z This accounts for their profanation of their Sabbath, their proneness to theft, etc. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z Or if they lacked anything in natural inclination, they made it up by imitation, a propensity which they possessed in no small degree, that is, a proneness to imitate the customs of other nations. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z "Guilt proneness, on the other hand, is associated more strongly with a desire to repair one's transgression." Why feeling guilty may make you a better boss 2012-11-21T00:33:39Z So that, if we can ensure this concession or acknowledgment, the occasional proneness to variation of these thoracic appendages is, as a law, admitted. On the Variation of Species, with Especial Reference to the Insecta ; Followed by an Inquiry into the Nature of Genera 2012-01-17T03:00:21.933Z For surely, despite all his proneness towards a musing solitude, Lincoln, of all Americans, displays through all his published statements, and in all his public life, an instructive and unstudied openness and unreserve. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z Elizabeth’s chief infirmity was a proneness to be hurt by unkindness p. 46or neglect; this she tried to conquer, and through Divine Grace, succeeded to a great degree. The Pilot's Daughter an account of Elizabeth Cullingham 2012-01-12T03:00:15.090Z The Jews had ever manifested a proneness for copying after the religious customs of their heathen neighbors, and engrafting their doctrines into their own creeds, as their bible history furnishes ample proof. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z If guilt proneness is so positive, should we be encouraging it? Why feeling guilty may make you a better boss 2012-11-21T00:33:39Z Perhaps Hardy's proneness to dwell on the skeletonic grin of life is due to his exceeding sensitiveness to beauty. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Borderers have ever been broken reeds to lean upon from their proneness to consult their own interests by going over to the stronger side. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z For the public always seizes on what is new, and has naturally a greater proneness to what is perverse and dull as akin to itself. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z When we consider its periodic monthly engorgements and the alternate hypertrophy and involution it undergoes in connexion with pregnancy, we can anticipate the special proneness of the uterus to new growths. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z She writes that "it may be wise for seekers of ethical friends and lovers to be mindful of guilt proneness when selecting new companions". Why feeling guilty may make you a better boss 2012-11-21T00:33:39Z The Doctor having found out his proneness to these evil courses, Kelly bore no good will to his former patron and associate. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z General Sherman was a conspicuous example of the almost universal proneness to confound right in the sense first mentioned above with it in the other. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z It is certain that Caligula intended to enter Britain; but his quick temper and proneness to change, or the unsuccessful attempts against the Germans, prevented him. Old English Chronicles 2011-10-27T02:00:21.903Z For the commercial orchard, however, it is falling into disfavor with the market men, because of its uncertainty, and its proneness to be defective on some soils. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z "Shame proneness is associated with a desire to hide or withdraw from the situation following a transgression," says Cohen. Why feeling guilty may make you a better boss 2012-11-21T00:33:39Z The question now arises: By what measures, or through what influences, if any, can such proneness to nervous diatheses be avoided? Insanity Its Causes and Prevention 2011-08-29T02:01:05.400Z One of his faults is his proneness to regard books as mere merchandise and not as vehicles of intellectual profit, that is to say, to be read. In the Track of the Bookworm 2011-07-19T02:00:23.543Z Some think it was an affliction of the eyes; others think that it was a proneness to some form of malarial fever which frequently brought him into a state of collapse and exhaustion. The Whole Armour of God 2011-07-12T02:00:30.060Z "Do you accuse yourself, and all of us, with a base proneness to craft and falsehood?" The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z At the same time, his proneness to mysticism was undeniable. The Student-Life of Germany 2011-07-03T02:00:09.143Z The Russians are essentially destitute of imagination and the spirit of invention; and then the proneness of the workmen to laziness and drunkenness cannot but be fatal to industry. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z The mechanism of society requires constant correction in order to keep up the succession of order and progress through and despite this proneness to extravagance and loss of power. Modern Society 2011-06-23T02:00:27.897Z Summing up the results from the experiment, Professor Simon Crowe concluded: There is a link between high levels of stress and psychosis, and caffeine was found to correlate with hallucination proneness. Scientists develop world's first living laser beam 2011-06-14T14:48:00Z He sacrifices everything for effect, and hence his proneness to horrors. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z I mention this as an example of his proneness to imitation, and also of his economical habits. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 2011-05-26T02:00:18.807Z The only blemish that could be brought against him was of a moral nature—as already mentioned, a proneness to dissipation. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z Conscious as both Adams and Clay doubtless were of their own rectitude, they did not sufficiently appreciate the proneness of the masses to believe in the corruption of their superiors. The Middle Period 1817-1858 2011-03-14T03:01:05.737Z It's possible that excess coffee drinking and "hallucinatory proneness" are both symptoms of some underlying issue. Scientists develop world's first living laser beam 2011-06-14T14:48:00Z Dragging his ball and chain, he fell upon his bed; for when the mind is cast down, only in sympathetic proneness can the body rest; whence the bed is often Grief's first refuge. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z Mr. Moncure Conway, in his autobiography, gives an amusing reminiscence of Bret Harte’s proneness to escape from what are known as “social duties.” The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Observe the natural selfishness of the youth, his inbred ambition, his thirst after worldly glory, his love of applause, his pursuit of revenge, and his proneness to deceit and falsehood. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z The students also completed questionnaires designed to measure, among other things, their proneness to anger, their history of fighting and their fondness for aggression as a way to solve both individual and geopolitical problems. Study: Are Liberals Smarter Than Conservatives? 2010-02-26T18:00:00Z The Easterner put down to mountain caution the amazing swiftness with which the other had come from his hulking proneness to upstanding alertness. The Law of Hemlock Mountain On the morrow I rose very contrite for the proneness of my mind towards pleasures, and calling to remembrance with an excessive sadness, that protestation of our bailiff's against stage-plays and ungodly shows. Idonia: A Romance of Old London A proneness to gambling and opium-smoking, and a tinge of vanity and deceitfulness, are their less estimable traits. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" Every year is the admission more extensively entered into that moral power is nobler than physical force; there is more earnestness in the conferences of nations, and less proneness to war. How to Observe Morals and Manners George looked often at the younger men, who didn't have to prepare themselves minutely for the greater struggle just ahead, envying them their careless play, their proneness to over-indulgence in beer and syncopated song. The Guarded Heights The man started with surprise; the surprise of one who had trained himself into an unnatural callousness as a defense against what had seemed a universal proneness to convict. The Law of Hemlock Mountain This animal neither practises the grimaces and antics of other monkeys, nor possesses their perpetual proneness to mischief. Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom She had an idea, for it was her ambition, that she successfully made a secret of that awkward oddity, her proneness to be rendered unhappy by the presence of the dreadful. The Spoils of Poynton Their defect is that of the Shiraz, a proneness to curl and puff themselves with pride. The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. Secondly, we occasionally come upon the censures of the faults and foibles of women--their proneness to scandal, to uncharitable judgments of their fellows, their pettiness, frivolity, and so forth. Greek Women Such proneness to earth in my highest aspirations after heaven! Coelebs In Search of a Wife The great source of fallacy is our proneness to eliminate or isolate in accordance with our prejudices. Logic, Inductive and Deductive There is a proneness in the heart to evil, which it is our duty to oppose, and which I see you are promoting. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales This proneness to suicide, and loose seat in life, is not peculiar to the Marquesan. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) The generalisations of philosophy go to improve our methods so that we may have greater proneness for sense of delight and greater possibility for sense delight. The Kempton-Wace Letters He wasn't smoking so very much but, he thought, with a bored abandonment to the situation, gratefully taking advantage of a pipe's proneness to go out. Old Crow I began in secret to take myself to task, and to lecture myself for my proneness to build theories on the foundation of my conjectures and wishes. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature This unresisted proneness to exaggeration produced the extravagance and the horrors of the Elizabethan Drama, full, as it was, nevertheless, of insight and originality. Spenser It must be sown quite thick, on account of its proneness not to vegetate. Soil Culture But, for the most part, the art of writing travels is lost—its imaginativeness, its credulity, its cherishing of mystery, and its proneness to awe. Old Roads and New Roads They have, on this account, a proneness to indulge, which is deserving of punishment only when it is combined with disobedience and secrecy, or when it betrays cunning and greediness. Pedagogics as a System He stooped to our own estate, in all things made like unto us, except, indeed, our proneness and ability to sin. The Shepherd Of My Soul But, if the brain has inherited defects, or has acquired a proneness to disease by mismanagement in early life, it will more easily yield to influences that cause diseased action. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) One thing that struck me in him, however, was an occasional absence of mind and proneness to reverie. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 Jim talked volubly and he talked often, for despite his nationality and its proverbial proneness to caution, he was bubbling with enthusiasm over the new plan for progress which he had conceived. The Spoilers of the Valley This characteristic brought another in its train—a lack of stability, and a proneness to transiency. The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States Credulity is not distinctively religious, but is a general readiness to believe without sufficient evidence, with a proneness to accept the marvellous. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Some Western writers have attempted to poke a mild kind of fun at this proneness of the Japanese for the “happy despatch” on what seemed to the writers very flimsy or trivial grounds. The Empire of the East Here and there are apt indications of his proneness to those vicious levities and debasing luxuries which afterwards ripened into such a gigantic profligacy. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar There is an inherent proneness to shrinkage of interest and value in the hands of any one who is not equally celebrated, or is not going to become so. The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time This tended to crystallise the national proneness to defer until the emergency arose the measures necessary to meet it. History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government What I have been remarking with regard to the proneness of newly discovered things to become all at once common was well illustrated for me about this time by these same linnets, or purple finches. Birds in the Bush My other disadvantage is, the natural proneness of men to lend a pleased attention to invective and accusation, but to give little heed to him whose theme is his own vindication. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life And yet they may be serviceable, if they warn us against that proneness to depreciate the intellectual value and serious purpose of the religious books of that land. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ The reason for the step is immaterial, more especially as there is a proneness to receive the one tendered, if not with indifference, with incredulity. The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time But although actual transgression had this beginning, it does not follow that the proneness of the heart of man to transgress was contingent on Adam's sin, or thereby came into existence. An Essay on the Scriptural Doctrine of Immortality A proneness to overindulgence in the agreeably soothing decoction produced by an infusion of tea leaves is, I confess, my chief besetting vice. Fibble, D.D. His early proneness to dwell upon the more recondite departments of each science and branch of inquiry has been alluded to above. Spare Hours The father early discovered in his son a perverseness of nature, and a proneness to commit mischievous and more than childish tricks. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 He's a good fellow, and a shrewd one; but has, among other difficulties, to fight against proneness to good-nature. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 20, 1893 There is not in human nature a more odious disposition than a proneness to contempt, which is a mixture of pride and ill-nature. Pearls of Thought And here the Church also in its embryonic spiritual life, in its proneness to externalize religion in forms of rite, and creed, and organization, has thought to find it. Miracles and Supernatural Religion A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. Depths, of the things of God; and our proneness to plunge into them, 41—43. A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. Mr. Henley has a pretty gift of versification, but it is spoiled by a wearisome proneness to smartness, and an assumption of personal superiority that occasionally reaches the heights of the ludicrous. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 20, 1893 When the proneness to slip off the unaccustomed foot has been overcome, backstays are not so awkward as they look. Faces and Places The production of a perfect being in whom there shall not be a proneness to do wrong, to whose purified moral nature wrong doing shall be quite foreign. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative The Doctor having found out his proneness to these evil courses, Kelly bore no good-will to his former patron and associate. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 The mention of Hayti conjures up a vision as of a ship manned by gorillas; for there and in Liberia is seen the proneness of the negroes to aimless lounging varied by outbursts of passion. William Pitt and the Great War In this avatár Vishṇu descended in the form of a sage for the purpose of making some reform in the religion of the Brahmins, and especially to reclaim them from their proneness to animal sacrifice. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse To Mr Borthwick's note I add one of several letters addressed to me, which shows the proneness to speculate upon constitutional novelties. The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861 Volume 2, 1844-1853 Among their worst features is their proneness to blood revenge, by which, as among other savages, a succession of retaliatory murders is long kept up. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America The first symptoms perceived are, a slight sense of weakness, with a proneness to trembling in some particular part; sometimes in the head, but most commonly in one of the hands and arms. An Essay on the Shaking Palsy Without the least proneness to blandishments, he gained and held the affection and confidence of his men. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War Oh, this proneness of the business man to talk shop! Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic "I didn't say that!" cried Janice, in some little panic, for she knew Dexter's proneness to gossip. Janice Day at Poketown From the infirmity of our natures, and our proneness to evil, there is nothing so corrupting as the statistics of vice. Diary in America, Series One One of these," he writes, "is his proneness to alliteration, due perhaps to his desire to reproduce the most striking features of the Early English.… John Lyly It is in this instability of his will, and his proneness to yield to drink or some other temptation, rather than in his intellect, that the weakness of the savage lies. Impressions of South Africa The proneness of mankind to be on the successful side has shown itself in all trying times. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 Men are simply absurd; but the women, with their ill-behaved hoops and short petticoats, are positively indecent; but the greatest of all their travelling offences is the proneness to form acquaintance at tables-d'h�te. Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General Hence our proneness to declare in all ages that evil is stronger than good and that "all men are liars." Preventable Diseases This time Magdaléna's face turned almost purple; but she had neither her sex's quick instinct of self-protection nor its proneness to dissemble, secretive as she was. The Californians The trolley with its frequent stops, the proneness of the plain folk to lunch upon bananas and peanuts and cast the skins and shells thereof upon the floor pained Archie greatly. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! Did they know anything of the "apprehensive" power of faith, or of man's proneness to consider his imperfect services, done in and by grace, as adequate to purchase eternal life? Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity It had also, with that perversity of spirit not uncommon in youth, exhibited a proneness to advance on the other side of bushes and trees from its companion, thus necessitating frequent halts and numerous disentanglements. The Hot Swamp Also he is represented, throughout the saga, as invariably capping his pranks or crimes with one of the jeering enigmatic epigrams in which one finds considerable excuse for the Icelandic proneness to murder. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) Yet the Jew forgets that a thousand years of trial were requisite to cure his ancestors of their proneness to idols. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited The proneness of these early Heretics severally to adopt one of the four Gospels for their own, explains why there is no consistency observable in the corruptions they introduced into the text. The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels It may be readily imagined, therefore, why until this I have never acknowledged my own proneness to expressing myself in verse. The Autobiography of Methuselah What is done once and again, soon gives facility and proneness. How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success Ernest, with all his proneness to exaggerate the importance of my actions, did not do so in reference to this unhappy transaction. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author Others say that it remained as far as it causes a difficulty in doing good, but was taken away as far as it causes a proneness to evil. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition I tried to do better, but the more I tried to live unto God the more I discovered the proneness of my heart to sin. Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854) This accounts for their profanation of their Sabbath, their proneness to theft, etc. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Then follows a remark which refers to Mozart's proneness to place undue reliance on promises, instead of using his own judgment. Story-Lives of Great Musicians The letters, again, when read with a due attention to dates, shows that Wycherley's proneness to take offence has at least been exaggerated. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series For there are some defects that are incompatible with the perfection of knowledge and grace, as ignorance, a proneness towards evil, and a difficulty in well-doing. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition This proneness to conversion, the origin of which some would fain tack on to the Jewish religion, is, nevertheless, diametrically opposed to it. Secret Societies And Subversive Movements The susceptibility or proneness to disease of each individual, must be esteemed peculiar to himself. A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy The dangers of Hebraism lay in excess of absorption, in a proneness to fanaticism, in an obstinacy which might become rabidness, in a certain misplaced loudness and disregard of dignity. Platform Monologues And then there came to the surface that proneness to accept men for what they were, in a man's world, which had long before convinced Caleb Hunter of Allison's inherent bigness. Then I'll Come Back to You But after Baptism man retains proneness to evil which removes virtue; and experiences difficulty in doing good, in which the act of virtue consists. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition His own faults he knew perfectly well to be quickness of temper and a proneness to hasty action. The Sun Of Quebec A Story of a Great Crisis But it may be well to point out that the vice of his excellence is his proneness to sentimentality. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story "Do you think that the Prophet refers in that passage to man's natural proneness to evil?" said I. "What can he refer to else?" said he. Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story A just estimate of that love of power and proneness to abuse it which predominate in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The Life of George Washington, Vol. 5 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States The facility with which mankind are misled in their estimate of characters, their proneness to multiply inferences and conjectures, will not be readily conceived by one destitute of my experience. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Remembering our natural proneness to carnal indulgence, it is not surprising that the victims of scandal are so many. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals With girls it was different, since they, being sentimentally above the proneness to error as well as practically below the liability for maintenance, might play fast and loose wherever their fleeting fancy alighted. The Miller Of Old Church I was conversing once with a colleague who belonged to this class, on man's natural proneness to evil. Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story This high estimate is useful in so far as it makes his condition pleasant, and it—or rather our proneness to form it—we are accustomed to call vanity. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country If, then, in the angels we consider the proneness to sin, it seems that the higher angels were less likely to sin than the lower. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition The simple proneness to evil, devoid of all wilful yielding is therefore not wrong. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals His proneness to satire and power of epigram made him enemies, but even these yielded to the suavity and fascination which alternated with his bitter moods. Great Italian and French Composers It was, of course, desirable to know a great deal more than could have been asked for or published with propriety, such as the proneness of particular families to grave constitutional disease. Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) An Index to Kinships in Near Degrees between Persons Whose Achievements Are Honourable, and Have Been Publicly Recorded There let him lament and bewail unto God his own frailty, negligence, and sloth in resisting and withstanding of temptation; his readiness and proneness to fall into it. Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens I answer that, Two things have to be considered in sin, namely, the proneness to sin, and the motive for sinning. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition And here let me remark upon the proneness which all children have to magnify the importance of little things. Parker's Second Reader National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C. The variety is much greater, but many, from their porous nature and proneness to decay, are of very little value, and scarcely admit of seasoning before they become rotten. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants Our present inquiry is, to illustrate that proneness in man, of delighting to reverse the order of society, and ridiculing its decencies. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 And David, notwithstanding his present proneness to discouragement, was a most winsome boy. Polly of the Hospital Staff This seems to be the more probable view: because the angels' sin did not come of any proneness, but of free choice alone. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition But sufficiently debased as he appeared, there yet lurked in him, only awaiting occasion for discovery, a still further proneness. The Piazza Tales All believed the "ghost" to have been pure imagination; knowing the woman's proneness to the marvellous, and her timid temperament. Verner's Pride A proneness to construe less aggravated crimes into acts of treason, made it proper that the constitution should define the crime. The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens. In his youth he had the reputation of being much disposed to gallantry; and the same proneness to intrigue was yet manifest, though employed in pursuits of a less transitory nature. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 This proneness to injury extends throughout its growth. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. We had talked some time upon the proneness of the human mind to mysticism, and the almost universal love of the terrible, when Hammond suddenly said to me. Famous Modern Ghost Stories A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of the position. Washington's Birthday Judging by their appearance, we found but little difficulty in believing the character which report had given them—namely, their proneness to assassination, especially in love affairs, either personally, or, more frequently, by deputy. The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal Her proneness to exaggerated praise especially excited his indignation, and he endeavours to make her responsible for his rudeness on the strength of it. Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice. Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 They saw also, and resented bitterly, the attempt to confound any dissent from the doctrines of Rome with the proneness to an encouragement of rites of sorcery. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft They should undeceive them in their natural proneness to judge people from the standpoint of character assumed in the parlor. The Christian Home Who, therefore, shall have faith in men and women And knowledge of their wrongs and needs and of their proneness to error. The Light in the Clearing Nor should they ever refuse to acknowledge with contrite hearts their proneness to turn away from God's teachings and to follow with sinful pride after their own devices. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland It is not true, he said, that the man whom God has converted feels any proneness to wander. Grappling with the Monster The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink But how comforting to know that God, our heavenly Father, sees and knows it all; that He pities our weakness and proneness to sin! The Two Elsies A Sequel to Elsie at Nantucket In the management of men one of the most important things to bear in mind is their proneness to work forward from the weak, and backward from the strong. The Conqueror Antonyms: disillusionize, repel, disabuse. bewitchery, n. bewitchment, charm, fascination, witchery. bewitching, a. enchanting, captivating, charming, irresistible. bias, n. bent, proneness, predisposition, prejudice. Putnam's Word Book Only in part, for the innate proneness of the German mind to research must be credited with some share in the result. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 I am well aware of the proneness of volunteer counsellors to frighten and excite one, and have generally disregarded them. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II Of these last, some perhaps really think so; but the rest are actuated by the necessity of checking men's too great proneness to it, and disparage it on that account. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics Neither Bossuet nor Louis XIV., neither Voltaire nor Béranger, is spared, nor the French character, with its proneness to frivolity and broad jest, its thirst for superficial excitement. Essays Æsthetical Antonyms: See inapt. aptitude, n. proneness, propensity, leaning, proclivity, inclination. Putnam's Word Book Of his proneness to self-revelation we have had a specimen already. Cowper A few passages from, her papers will best illustrate this proneness to rapture. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II This is fellow-feeling on apprehending the state of others, and proneness to relieve, without any thought of our own advantage, as seen in children. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics To counteract, in so far as may be, this proneness to a mechanical inflexibility, the translator should keep himself free to wield boldly and with full swing his own native speech. Essays Æsthetical Antonyms: See indisposed. disposition, n. temperament, mood, nature; willingness, readiness, inclination; arrangement, disposal; propensity, inclination, proneness, proclivity, bias, bent. Putnam's Word Book If he has occasionally that proneness to make a fool of himself which seizes every man now and then, he may indulge in the perilous luxury without great carefulness of the consequences. Elbow-Room A Novel Without a Plot Assumptions as to what I should do under given conditions had always irritated me, and accounted, in a large measure, for my proneness to surprise and disappoint people. The House of a Thousand Candles Her proneness to thieving was very great; I have frequently seen her eating stolen things when she would refuse what was offered her; it was never safe to take her near poultry. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea I found in the plantation negroes a proneness to exaggeration, in cases where their fears or desires were concerned. Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation Walter Scott expresses mankind's proneness to revenge in words as powerful as they are true: "Vengeance is the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell!" Essays of Schopenhauer Another reason for the slowness of the emancipation and development of modern Serbia has been the proneness of its people to internal dissension. The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey Sir Thomas More had the same proneness to merriment, a coincidence the more striking as both these great men were Lord Chancellors. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 They have a remarkable proneness to believe that which they wish, it is true; but, beyond that weakness, some limits are placed to their faith and appearances must be a good deal consulted. The Crater A just estimate of that love of power and proneness to abuse it which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 1, part 1: George Washington What is done once and again, soon gives facility and proneness. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance The honest man who had expended the sweat of his brow became uneasy, and began to complain with bitterness of the proneness of mankind to cheat him—him invested with the dignity of Labour! Our Mutual Friend The first is, his proneness to ascribe hostility or benevolent intention to every thing of a memorable sort that occurs to him in the order of nature. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author Clara had a wicked temper when she was in liquor, and had the ordinary human proneness to lying, to mischievous gossip, and to utter laziness. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise This proneness to sudden accesses of violence and fury was the compensation which abated the effect of his ordinary craft and self-command. Wylder's Hand He also frequently made himself one of the poker coterie, and relished keenly the stock jokes as to his grandson's proneness to lose. The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation And probably the sense that his title, as head of the Executive Government, is derived merely from popular consent, may check the too natural proneness of power to render itself arbitrary. Woodstock; or, the Cavalier There are many ladies whose piety excites universal admiration, but who, from some constitutional proneness or some acquired habit, bestow a disproportionate, and therefore, on many accounts, highly pernicious concern upon their household arrangements. Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II There be those who think proneness 37to such suffering is unmanly, or that the sufferer should at any rate hide his agony. The Life of Cicero Volume One His lies deceived Maulfry, who would have known better but for her proneness to think everybody a fool. The Forest Lovers But let me check my proneness to dilate upon this favorite theme; I may recur to it hereafter. Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies Rousseau showed through life a singular proneness for being convinced by his own eloquence; he was always his own first convert; and this reconciles his power as a writer with his weakness as a man. Among My Books First Series A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominate in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched The evil habit in him is not an actual adhesion of his will to evil, but a proneness to relapse into that state. Moral Philosophy One of the effects of the weariness of our bodies and minds, was our proneness to talk in our sleep. Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published In the meantime his pecuniary difficulties are increasing upon him, conflicting with his proneness to pleasure and expense, and contributing by the harassment of his mind to the wear and tear of his constitution. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography Aside from Shelley, Marlowe is the historical poet most frequently chosen to illustrate the world's proneness to take advantage of the poet's innocence. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Hence Cicero, with all his proneness to exaggerate the excellences of his friends, never speaks of him as eloquent. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius There was a particular proneness to accept fresh ideas; a new sense of national consciousness was awakening. Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia Not that the roughest Westerner was not excessively gallant, but his restrictions in the ladies' presence did not always curb his proneness to "tall talk." The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form In this petition we acknowledge our weakness and proneness to go astray. Studies in the Life of the Christian Israel's proneness to fall back to heathenism makes it certain that a supernatural revelation is needed to account for their possession of the loftier faith which was so far above them. Expositions of Holy Scripture In view of the proneness to permit base thoughts to enter the mind, human beings might sometimes fear even to think. How to Use Your Mind A Psychology of Study: Being a Manual for the Use of Students and Teachers in the Administration of Supervised Study While this novel is full of life, color, and movement, it displays his proneness to allow the romantic vein to run to the fantastic in both episode and style. Halleck's New English Literature Abraham, with his inherent proneness toward imitation of oratory, used to "take them off" to the hilarity of the laboring men who formed his first audiences. The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form They were an example of the absurdity of a tradition—'the world's' proneness to calumny. Tenterhooks This proneness to moralize the song is in truth a characteristic of the old Spanish bard. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 A just estimate of that love of power and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. Elson Grammar School Literature v4 From boyhood, he had shown a delicate and sensitive nature, a tender conscience, and a proneness to religious emotion. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century Like most men who lead physical lives, and like all meat-eating savages, these are possessed of a natural proneness toward strong drink. The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake This is but one sample of the man's proneness to interfere in other matters. The Life of Abraham Lincoln With a discerning eye Clarendon read the prevailing defects of the Stuart race—their proneness to succumb to flattery and vicious influence, and then obstinately to sacrifice every good inclination to the acquired vice. Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 In the affair of love, which, out of strict conformity with the Stoic philosophy, we shall here treat as a disease, this proneness to relapse is no less conspicuous. History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Also he thought it his duty to rub in our national want of fastidiousness, and our proneness to mistake nickel for silver. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography And this unamiable feature of his nature, together with a proneness to petty manoeuvring, are the main foibles that malice has been able to charge upon Pope's moral character. Biographical Essays The proneness of captive deer to maim and to kill themselves and each other calls for the utmost vigilance, and for heroic endurance on the part of the deer keeper. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations She was a beautiful young girl, a favorite with all, and possessing, as it seemed, but one glaring fault—a proneness to estimate people for their wealth rather than their worth. Rosamond — or, the Youthful Error Knowing the little fellow's proneness to mischief, and forgetfulness of all commands, I at last hastened back with a half guilty and worried feeling. Driven Back to Eden It was the first time she had ever been conscious of her own selfishness, or perhaps more justly, of her proneness to make all give way to her own feeling of the moment. Henrietta's Wish Or, Domineering These heart-burnings whenever she witnessed men and women rejoicing in the exercise of their natural affections, what could that be but the proneness to evil in its grossest form? The Unclassed Even just grounds for such suspicions will but too often occur, and when such fail, the proneness of man to impute evil qualities, as well as evil designs, to his enemies, will suggest false ones. History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second Meta's patient sorrow was the best remedy for proneness to such musings. The Daisy chain, or Aspirations And there are two things to which man is prone, that makes confession hard: First, There is a great proneness in us to be partial, and not thorough and plain in our confessions. The Pharisee and Publican In his indecision, his weakness, his proneness to be led by others, his want of self-confidence, he was very far from being perfect. Barchester Towers A magnificent seaman, he might have become Lord High Admiral of England but for a certain proneness to intrigue. The Sea-Hawk Taciturnity is a big thing when you know how to work it, and so is proneness to irritability. Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica The Governor was well aware of the proneness of the Indians to early morning attacks, so that about four o'clock on the 7th of November he rose to call the men to parade. The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond These they hold, through their proneness to degenerate, to be all evil. The Commonwealth of Oceana He says I have a proneness for quoting Scripture. The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 3 The Lincoln-Douglas debates Your proneness to believe in sayings and prophecies, in sorceries and magic, is the weakest point of all of you.’ The Caged Lion They had no cares nor duties, and their pleasures were simple and easily secured, as they consisted of sleep and a proneness to avoid moving. Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up His indecision, his weakness, his proneness to be led by others, his want of self-confidence, he was very far from being perfect. Barchester Towers Science may eventually discover the germ prompting to ill-assorted marriages, proneness to invest in the wrong stock, uncontrollable desire to recite poetry at evening parties. The Angel and the Author, and others There was a proneness to suspicion and an aptness to acts of violence on the part of the whites that gave weight and importance to every idle tale. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon He mistrusted his superior's proneness to fussy action. Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard The Lord pity the proneness of his heart to comply with the men who have the power . Bunyan Characters (1st Series) The man who realizes his own proneness to err, and who keeps in mind the relative unimportance of his aims and powers, is not apt to explode in the face of opposition or contradiction. The Foundations of Personality The wandering whites who mingle for any length of time with the savages have invariably a proneness to adopt savage habitudes; but none more so than the free trappers. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West Difficulties of the American Minister arising from too great proneness of Americans to believe Russian stories; typical examples. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 The proneness of man to laughter is modified by age, sex, training, mental state, health, and by many other factors. Origin and Nature of Emotions |
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