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 Proclaim on the Housetop.Procris. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Proclivity.
 
His proclivities are all evil. His tendencies or propensities have a wrong bias. The word means downhill tendency. (Latin, proclivis.)   1
 


 Proclaim on the Housetop.Procris. 

 
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