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prædilection

prædilection

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Noun

prædilection (plural prædilections)

  1. Obsolete spelling of predilection
    • 1769, William Robertson, The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V., page 294:
      A remarkable proof of the general uſe of trial by combat, and of the prædilection for that mode of deciſion occurs in the laws of the Lombards.