propenseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /pɹəˈpɛns/
• 韻: -ɛns

形容詞

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.

2. (archaic, postpositive) Prepense.

派生語

参照

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

アナグラム

• Epperson, prepones, propenes

参照

• “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