"predilection of" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe someone's strong preference or tendency towards something. Example: "His predilection of spicy food was evident in his choice of dishes at the restaurant."
Ms McDowell indicated that the contemporary music programming would depend on the predilection of the orchestra's conductors.
One inflationary circumstance is the soaring predilection of big money from Asia for touchstones of Western culture.
These two elements provided the format, depending on the wealth and predilection of the patron daimyo, for extensive painting programs.
2. Do not encourage the predilection of humans of all sizes to squeal and stick their hands directly in a dog's face.
Some attribute the British decline to the predilection of the well-heeled patrons of the top clubs to pass up homegrown talent to sign Argentine players.
But the intellectual culture of our citizens should be a primary part of our national well-being, not just the predilection of an eccentric elite.
Thanks to the armor of special interests and to the predilection of presidents to do things, Reagan left behind a much bigger federal enterprise than he inherited, including a whole new cabinet department (Veterans Affairs) and 60,000 more employees.
This predilection of Mr. Gore's is all the more surprising because it often involves trivial matters -- ones that could easily be checked -- such as how Mr. Gore recalled a childhood lullaby that did not exist.
In fact, the Finns are often puzzled by the predilection of Britons for visiting during the winter, when you get three or four hours of daylight and temperatures hover in the minus-twenties.
Synonymous with bonfire night, toffee apples, those top-heavy, flat peaked baubles on sticks, have long been a treat for the children and an unjudged predilection of the parent.
The apparent predilection of the LANT pattern for macroadenomas of the gonadotroph cell lineage remains unexplained.
