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[ God is more propense to rewards than to punishments. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), II. 40. Our agents shall discern the mind of the parliament towards us, which if it be propense and favorable, there may be a fit season to procure countenance of our proWinthrop, Hist. New England, II. 345. ceedings. propensely (pro-pens'li), adv . In a propense manner; with natural tendency. Others. looked upon it, on the contrary, as a real and substantial oath propensely formed against Yorick. Sterne , Tristram Shandy, iv. 27. propensene (pro-pens'nes), n . The state of being propense; natural tendency. A propensene to diseases in the body. Donne, Devotions, p. 573. propension (prō-pen's hon), n. [ F.propension = Sp. propension = Pg. propensão = It. propen sione, I ever had a greater zeal to sadne , A natural propension . Middle ton, Mas singer , and Rowley , Old Law, iv. 2. Such by-words as reaction and progre are but the political slang which each side uses to expre their aversions and their propensions . Stubbs , Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 18. 2. The state or condition of tending to move in a certain direction. In natural motions this impetuosity continually increases, by the continued action of the cause-namely, the propension of going to the place a igned it by nature. Whewell. [ pense + -itude , as in attitude , etc.] Propensity. [Rare.] T' abandon naturall propensitudes . Marston, What you Will, ii. 1.