The Collaborative International Dictionary
Propension \Pro*pen"sion\, n. [L. propensio: cf. F. propension.
See Propend, Propense.]
The quality or state of being propense; propensity.
--M.
Arnold.
Your full consent
Gave wings to my propension.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. (context now rare English) propensity.
Usage examples of "propension".
Fond of a novelty which flattered their natural propension, they overlooked the daughters of Edward IV.
Neither his own years, which were near forty, nor his character of a clergyman, were any restraint upon him, or engaged him to check, by any useless severity, the gayety in which Henry, who had small propension to debauchery, passed his careless hours.
The gentry and nobility, who, without attachment to the court, without command in the army, attended in great numbers the English camp, greedily seized, and propagated, and gave authority to these sentiments: a retreat, very little honorable, which the earl of Holland, with a considerable detachment of the English forces, had made before a detachment of the Scottish, caused all these humors to blaze up at once: and the king, whose character was not sufficiently vigorous or decisive, and who was apt from facility to embrace hasty counsels, suddenly assented to a measure which was recommended by all about him, and which favored his natural propension towards the misguided subjects of his native kingdom.