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PROPENDENCY

Definition: PROPENDENCY

PROPENDENCY

Noun

1. Attentive deliberation.

2. Propensity.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Propendency \Pro*pend"en*cy\, noun. 1. Propensity. [Rare]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: PROPENDENCY

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Affections

Noun: affections, affect; character, qualities, disposition, nature, spirit, tone; temper, temperament; diathesis, idiosyncrasy; cast of mind, cast of soul, habit of mind, habit of soul, frame of mind, frame of soul; predilection, turn, natural turn of mind; bent, bias, predisposition, proneness, proclivity, propensity, propenseness, propension, propendency; vein, humor, mood, grain, mettle; sympathy; (love).

Predetermination

Noun: predestination, preordination, premeditation, predeliberation, predetermination; foregone conclusion, fait accompli; parti pris; resolve, propendency; intention; project; fate, foredoom, necessity.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Rhyming with "PROPENDENCY"

Words rhyming with "PROPENDENCY" (pronounced 'Pro*pend"en*cy'): Abbacy, Abeyancy, Abhorrency, Absorbency, Abstinency, Acceptancy, Accordancy, Accountancy, Accumbency, Accuracy, Acquiescency, Acritochromacy, Adequacy, Adherency, Adjutancy, Adolescency, Advocacy, Aeromancy, Affluency, Agency, Aldermancy, Alectoromancy, Alectryomancy, Aleuromancy, Alliciency, Alomancy, Al-phitomancy, Alternacy, -ancy, Antecedency, Anthracomancy, Anthropomancy, Apparency, Appellancy, Appetency, Applicancy, Archiepiscopacy, Ardency, ARISTOCRACY, Arithmancy, Arithmomancy, Arrogancy, Aruspicy, Ascendency, Assurgency, Astragalomancy, Astringency, Athermancy, Attendancy, Austromancy. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PROPENDENCY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-n-n-o-p-p-r-y"

-3 letters: coppered, pendency.

-4 letters: coppery, cropped, decoyer, doyenne, encoder, encored, perpend, popeyed, precode, proceed, propend, propene.

-5 letters: conned, conner, copped, copper, corned, creepy, creped, crepey, crepon, decern, depone, donnee, encode, encore, neoned, opened, opener, penned, penner, pereon, ponced, ponder, popery, preyed, pyrene, pyrone, pyrope, recode, recopy, redeny, redone, reopen, repped, yenned, yonder.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-n-n-o-p-p-r-y"
 

+2 letters: preponderancy.

 

+4 letters: pseudopregnancy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PROPENDENCY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 52 4F 50 45 4E 44 45 4E 43 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.--.    .-.    ---    .--.    .    -.    -..    .    -.    -.-.    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01010010 01001111 01010000 01000101 01001110 01000100 01000101 01001110 01000011 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#82 &#79 &#80 &#69 &#78 &#68 &#69 &#78 &#67 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0052 004F 0050 0045 004E 0044 0045 004E 0043 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5052495039483839483759

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Rhymes
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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