PROPENSE

Definition: PROPENSE

PROPENSE

Adjective

1. Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "PROPENSE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Etymology: Propense \Pro*pense"\, adjective. [Latin expression propensus, past participle See Propend.]. (Websters 1913)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Willingness	Ready, forward, earnest, eager; bent upon; (desirous); predisposed, propense.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: PROPENSE

English words defined with "PROPENSE": Inclinable ♦ Propension. (references)

Etymologies containing "PROPENSE": Propension. (references)

Non-English Usage: "PROPENSE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Latin (readily).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: propenes.
	Words within the letters "e-e-n-o-p-p-r-s"
	-1 letter: openers, propene, reopens.
	-2 letters: opener, peones, pereon, person, preens, reopen, repose.
	-3 letters: ernes, erose, neeps, opens, peens, peeps, peers, penes, peons, pepos, perps, perse, pones, popes, pores, porns, poser, preen, prees, preps, prese, prone, props, prose, repos, repps, ropes, senor, sneer, snore, speer, spore, spree.
	-4 letters: eons, epos, erne, erns, eros, neep, noes, nope.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-n-o-p-p-r-s"
	+1 letter: peperonis.
	+2 letters: notepapers, pepperonis, properness, propylenes.
	+3 letters: peppercorns, perceptions, preemptions, propellents, sniperscope, superperson, superweapon, unstoppered.
	+4 letters: apprehension, improperness, overstepping, plecopterans, prepotencies, promptnesses, propensities, propernesses, sniperscopes, speakerphone, spokesperson, superpersons, superweapons, teenyboppers.
	+5 letters: apperceptions, apprehensions, doppelgangers, eavesdropping, lepidopterans, misperception, nephropathies, neuropeptides, opportuneness, perpetrations, perpetuations, phanerophytes, picturephones, precentorship, premenopausal, preponderates, prepossessing, prepossession, preprocessing, propoxyphenes, prosencephala, purposiveness, speakerphones, spokespersons, superpersonal.
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