The traditions of his house were strictly Protestant, his tutors were Calvinistic refugees, and his personal predilectionshad from his earliest youth been enthusiastically Voltairean.
In no way did his tastes more nearly approach our modern predilections than in his love of nature and his passion for travel.
He was as little in sympathy with the intellectual predilections of the period as was Voltaire with the contentions of Jansenist and Jesuit.
Prejudice, personal taste, metaphysics and even the predilectionsof sentiment, still govern the world's judgments and appreciations.
It was a summary process, and I sincerely believe, had a tendency to repress his rising predilections for the future.
With regard to literature, his predilections (or more particularly what Zola would call his haines) were fully as protestant and as thorough.
There is a substratum of Guide Book and Gil Blas, no doubt, but there are unmistakable streaks of Defoe, of Dumas, and of Dickens, with all his native prejudices and insular predilections strong upon him.
We can frequently study an author with good effect through the medium of his literary admirations; we have already noticed a few of Borrow's predilections in real life.
Yet immigrants continue to come from the Old World, differing as widely in their political and religious education and predilections as in their language, customs, and social habits.
Nor was he ever diverted from his predilections by mere fashion or novelty.
To Douglas, as to the rank and file of the party, the selection of Polk must have come as a surprise; but whatever predilections he may have had for another candidate, were speedily suppressed.
This attitude is not surprising, when one recalls his predilections and the conflict of evidence on essential points in the controversy.
How is it that so few traces of these predilections are to be found in his printed sermons?
It is much to Robert Nelson's honour that in an age of strong party animosities he never suffered his political predilections to stand in the way of union for any benevolent purpose.
What is important is that the speaker should have the same predilections as the majority, and that his country's friends and foes should be also his own.
Each had all the graces of voice and language, and yet each failed conspicuously in practical effect whenever he ran counter to the predilections and passions of his countrymen.
The wise Benedictine rule contained a special warning against favouritism, for indeed human nature cannot avoid preferences and it is the hardest task of a ruler to subdue personal predilections to perfect fairness.
The third was the temptation to let human predilections have their way and to show favouritism.
While in the domical church of St. Nicholas at Potsdam, he employed Roman forms in a modernized Roman conception, and followed in one or two other buildings the principles of the Renaissance, his predilections were for Greek architecture.
The narrow lofty aisles, multiplied supports and minute detail of the Gothic style were repugnant to the classic predilections of the Italian builders.
All such undertakings have more or less their independent value and merit from the fact that each is apt to reflect and preserve the special experiences and predilections of the immediate author; and so it happens in the present case.
But I can sympathise with the predilections of others, having certain predilections of my own.
One of the young men was a whig, and the other a tory; and the wives had very naturally adopted the predilections of their respective husbands.
But that triumph would not be complete, unless the daughter, whose predilections for Woodburn and the American cause were more than suspected, could be kept within the scope of loyal influence.
My private predilections may have led me to lay too much emphasis on the main contention of 'The Critic as Artist.
His predilections are now for simplicity and now for such overworked conceits as this:-- "GUIDO.
But it was impossible to imagine that James would have come with sincerity into measures so repugnant to his predilections and interests.
Those who believe in the transmission of hereditary qualities and predilections from generation to generation will find a rare practical illustration of their theory in the Rev.
They agreed to vote for the two lowest candidates on the list throughout the polling, irrespective altogether of personal predilections or sympathies in favour of either.
Also an American by the name of Lace, who was a brother-in-law to General Vallejos, and whose predilections appeared to lean in favor of the Mexican side.
They had no national predilections or prejudices arising from past experience.
By disposition is meant the desires or predilections of the heart, which influence the choice of the will to do good or evil.
I should have no hesitation whatever in saying so had not the "Carmen" craze reached proportions which precluded the thought that artistic predilections or convictions had anything to do with it.
Here plainly was a concession to the Italian predilectionsof the stockholders.
Knowing that the suspicion of his entertaining Popish predilectionswas very much about, he married his niece, the Lady Anne, to Prince George of Denmark, a Protestant.
A most unreasonable reaction towards royalty now ensued, and the anxiety to deal mercilessly with the regicides ran into a most sanguinary extreme, surpassing in fury the most bloodthirsty predilections of the fiercest republicans.
His flatterers say that he could speak five languages, and had a taste for music and physic, in the latter of which predilections we are quite unable to sympathise.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "predilections" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
