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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Google counts on Oct 16, 2006
2,190,000 predilection
1,410,000 dereliction
33 predereliction—proposed eggcorn
Analysis by Joe Krozel
“Predilection” is a prepossession in favor of something. “Dereliction” is intention abandonment. When some attempt to use the former word, the latter word exerts its influence to produce “predereliction” —with a blended definition of a prepossession accompanied by abandonment. As such, it might actually function as an eggcorn of “predilection” which sometimes has a negative connotation along the lines of indulgence. And so, predereliction takes this indulgence to the point of an actual dereliction from other activities.
Examples:
Weapons of Mass Discussion: 01/01/2005 – 01/31/2005In here one can infer, given the UN’s past predereliction for interference in sovereignty, that experts would determine what constitutes injury to a child. ...
massdiscussion.blogspot.com/2005_01_01_massdiscussion_archive.html – 559k – Cached – Similar pages
Glomus Tumours As A Cause Of Severe Localised Pain Around The KneeIt is an uncommon tumour with predereliction for fingers and subungal area but reports have been published of cases at many different extra-digital sites …
www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFilePa … glomus.xml – 24k – Cached – Similar pages
Writers on the Loose – Mark AssiniTheir inability to find common ground is their predereliction to failure. A weak form of fascism, to say the least. They will find defeat soon, ...
www.writersontheloose.com/writers/MAssi … read=26533 – 25k – Cached – Similar pages
Jordan Summers – romance and romanticaA woman can be tough as nails and not make a fist….but I do tend to write larger than life ladies…with a predereliction for leather, combat boots, ...
www.jordansummers.com/js/GetArticle.aspx?id=758 – 68k – Cached – Similar pages
Article Detail – Sort ASCGiven this Administrations reputation for responding hostilely to criticism, their predereliction for holding grudges and their rolling back of rights …
www.witchvox.com/wren/wn_detaila.html?id=7567&offset=0 – 54k – Supplemental Result – Cached – Similar pages
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