PREDILECTION in a Sentence

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For PREDILECTION, below is one of 4 sentences:
Although I have written all sorts of poetry over the years, I have a definite predilection for occasional verse.

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 Meanings and Examples of PREDILECTION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
predilection
 n.  condition of favoring or liking; tendency towards; preference
Classic Sentence:
1  Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate; I desire, therefore, in this narration, to state those facts which led to my predilection for that science.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
2  It must be owned, that if an interest displayed in his success could have bribed the Disinherited Knight, the part of the lists before which he paused had merited his predilection.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  But man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: VII
Example Sentence:
1  Although I have written all sorts of poetry over the years, I have a definite predilection for occasional verse.