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adjective

Prone adj.

Bending forward; inclined; not erect. "Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone."

Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; opposed to supine. "Which, as the wind, Blew where it listed, laying all things prone."

Headlong; running downward or headlong. "Down thither prone in flight."

Sloping, with reference to a line or surface; declivous; inclined; not level. "Since the floods demand, For their descent, a prone and sinking land."

Inclined; propense; disposed; applied to the mind or affections, usually in an ill sense. Followed by to. "Prone to mischief." "Poets are nearly all prone to melancholy."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Prone" Quotes from Famous Books

... fallen, she did not have to hurl herself prone to clutch at the snow with her fingers. She sped on, came slowly to a standstill and then her heart leaping, her blood racing, her eyes bright and wet she was over the ridge and speeding forward again, the roar of the river lost to her ears, the form of ...

— The Short Cut • Jackson Gregory

... that the ushers and secret service officials on duty at the Executive Mansion during the war were prone to congregate in a little anteroom and exchange reminiscences. This was directly against instructions ...

— The Lincoln Story Book • Henry L. Williams

... of time to point out that ancient distinction,—between mere change and improvement. Yet there is a class of mind that is prone to confuse them. We have had political leaders whose conception of greatness was to be forever frantically doing something,—it mattered little what; restless, vociferous men, without sense of the energy of concentration, knowing only the energy ...

— The New Freedom - A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People • Woodrow Wilson

... women. (It has been necessary to discuss this question in dealing with "Love and Pain" in the third volume of these Studies.) It seems certainly clear that the notion that women are especially prone to self-sacrifice has little biological validity. Self-sacrifice by compulsion, whether physical or moral compulsion, is not worthy of the name; when it is deliberate it is simply the sacrifice of a lesser good for the sake of a greater good. Doubtless a man who eats a good ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... engage in a serious quarrel they are prone to decide it with the stiletto, or, if they belong to the class which subscribes to the code, they meet on the field of honor with rapiers or pistols; Anglo-Saxons are accustomed to settle their disputes in a court of law or with their fists; but when Dyaks become involved in a controversy which ...

— Where the Strange Trails Go Down • E. Alexander Powell

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