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Word of the Day for Sunday, September 27, 2009predilection \preh-d'l-EK-shun; pree-\, noun: A predisposition to choose or like; an established preference. Wilson doesn't see any inconsistency between his socialism and his predilection for the high life. By his own account, Mr. Kuhn was a rebellious young man. Among Harvard music majors, he said, his predilection for jazz marked him as a black sheep. But for him the first rule of judging was to set aside personal predilection and vote the law and the facts. Predilection is at root "a liking before," from Latin prae-, "before" + diligere, "to choose; hence to prefer, to like very well." | |||||||||
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