Accident proneness. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Sir Thomas More had the same proneness to merriment. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859] Reference
This proneness to injury extends throughout its growth. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
This proneness arises out of the men's own vulnerability. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
In this petition we acknowledge our weakness and proneness to go astray. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Life of the Christian] Reference
This is but one sample of the man's proneness to interfere in other matters. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
The simple proneness to evil, devoid of all wilful yielding is therefore not wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals] Reference
A proneness to some sins may doubtless lie in the natural temper and disposition of men. From Wordnik.com. [Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers] Reference
And David, notwithstanding his present proneness to discouragement, was a most winsome boy. From Wordnik.com. [Polly of the Hospital Staff] Reference
Without the least proneness to blandishments, he gained and held the affection and confidence of his men. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
Only in part, for the innate proneness of the German mind to research must be credited with some share in the result. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference
I am greatly astonished when i consider the great feebleness of mind and its proneness to fall insensibly into error. From Wordnik.com. [lethalpickle Diary Entry] Reference
They should undeceive them in their natural proneness to judge people from the standpoint of character assumed in the parlor. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Home] Reference
Then follows a remark which refers to Mozart's proneness to place undue reliance on promises, instead of using his own judgment. From Wordnik.com. [Story-Lives of Great Musicians] Reference
Whereas he would have appeared to be both, supposing5 the God-given revelations had but revealed his own proneness to deception. From Wordnik.com. [Memorabilia] Reference
Devil's lie in Eden was absorbed by, and ruined man, there has been a proneness, a latent tendency to idolatry in the human race. From Wordnik.com. [The Mark of the Beast] Reference
A proneness to construe less aggravated crimes into acts of treason, made it proper that the constitution should define the crime. From Wordnik.com. [The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.] Reference
In his indecision, his weakness, his proneness to be led by others, his want of self-confidence, he was very far from being perfect. From Wordnik.com. [Barchester Towers] Reference
This proneness to depart from the truth is a perilous season, because it is the greatest evidence of the withdrawing of the Spirit of. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
It means that proneness of the will to evil which is mentioned in Gen. 8: 21: "the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.". From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
Others say that it remained as far as it causes a difficulty in doing good, but was taken away as far as it causes a proneness to evil. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
Fehling's original solution has a tendency to become hyper-sensitive if kept long, a proneness to change that is much increased on dilution. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887] Reference
But after Baptism man retains proneness to evil which removes virtue; and experiences difficulty in doing good, in which the act of virtue consists. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
In keeping with his proneness to jest at his own expense rather than lose a laugh, Lincoln is credited with telling the following story upon himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
Aside from Shelley, Marlowe is the historical poet most frequently chosen to illustrate the world's proneness to take advantage of the poet's innocence. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
Not that the roughest Westerner was not excessively gallant, but his restrictions in the ladies 'presence did not always curb his proneness to "tall talk.". From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
Abraham, with his inherent proneness toward imitation of oratory, used to "take them off" to the hilarity of the laboring men who formed his first audiences. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
For there are some defects that are incompatible with the perfection of knowledge and grace, as ignorance, a proneness towards evil, and a difficulty in well-doing. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
He has had the sense of accident proneness over the years, but he's well now, he just had lunch with his grandmother, helping her celebrate her 101st birthday -- Brian. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 4, 2001] Reference
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