prædilection
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Noun[edit]
prædilection (plural prædilections)
- Obsolete spelling of predilection
- 1769, William Robertson, The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] W. and W. Strahan, for W[illiam] Strahan, T[homas] Cadell, […]; and J. Balfour, […], →OCLC:
- 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.