pronityとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

pronity (plural pronities)

1. (archaic) Proneness to do something; propensity.
   • 1713, Franciscus Euistor the Palæopolite [pseudonym; Henry More], “The First Dialogue”, in Divine Dialogues, Containing Sundry Disquisitions & Instructions Concerning the Attributes of God and His Providence in the World. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Joseph Downing […], →OCLC, paragraph XII, page 23:

     For I have very much vvondred at the devotedneſs of ſome Mens Spirits to the pretence of pure Mechaniſm in the ſolving of the Phænomena of the Univerſe, vvho yet othervviſe have not been of leſs Pretenſions to Piety and Vertue. Of vvhich Mechanick pronity I do not ſee any good tendency at all.

参照

• “pronity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.