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penchant

[ pen-chuhnt; French pahn-shahn ]

noun

  1. a strong inclination, taste, or liking for something:

    a penchant for outdoor sports.



penchant

/ ˈɒŋʃɒŋ /

noun

  1. a strong inclination or liking; bent or taste
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Word History and Origins

Origin of penchant1

1665–75; < French, noun use of present participle of pencher to incline, lean < Vulgar Latin *Ի徱, derivative of Latin Իŧ to hang
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Word History and Origins

Origin of penchant1

C17: from French, from pencher to incline, from Latin Իŧ to be suspended
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Idioms and Phrases

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Example Sentences

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Knowles debunks her reputation as a stage mom, though she carried on her matrilineal penchant for designing and sewing clothes, as the stylist for Destiny’s Child.

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His attempt to reform the Vatican was marked by both action and a Jesuit penchant for deliberation.

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Inevitably, the discussion turned to the wrecking-ball presidency of Donald Trump and his autocratic and, frankly, un-American penchant for siccing the government on his political foes.

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The narrator, a reader with siblings and a penchant for run-on sentences, brings a modernist sensibility to the texture of her daily life.

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Nauman paid close attention to Duchamp’s penchant for an art of puns and conundrums.

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