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predilection

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Ancestral Lore of predilection

1742, "a prepossession of the mind in favor of something"

from French prédilection (16th century)
noun from Medieval Latin praedilectus, past participle of prediligere "prefer before others"

predilection noun
  • an established preference for something

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Specific examples and quotes of predilection

“But man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.”

"Notes from the Underground"
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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~☉~lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context
classic definition
artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense
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