TENDENCY

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Traducere în limba română

tendency¹ substantiv

străduinţă, năzuinţă, aspiraţie, înclinare, pornire, simpatie, tendinţă.

tendency² substantiv

1. direcţie, tendinţă, înclinare, năzuinţă.

2. scop, efect, rezultat.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

To Fanny's mind, Edmund's absence was really, in its cause and its tendency, a relief.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Several genes involved in the immune system have been associated with a tendency to develop rheumatoid arthritis.

(Rheumatoid arthritis mechanisms may vary by joint, NIH)

Its tendency would be to raise and refine her mind—and it must be saving her from the danger of degradation.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

A very few days were enough to effect this; and at the end of those few days, circumstances arose which had a tendency rather to forward his views of pleasing her, inasmuch as they gave her a degree of happiness which must dispose her to be pleased with everybody.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Amiable and delightful as Miss Woodhouse is, she never gave me the idea of a young woman likely to be attached; and that she was perfectly free from any tendency to being attached to me, was as much my conviction as my wish.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Fanny checked the tendency of these thoughts as well as she could, but she was within half a minute of starting the idea that Sir Thomas was quite unkind, both to her aunt and to herself.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

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