inclining

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noun

inclination

UncommonScrabble 12

Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of incline
nouninclining (plural inclinings)

plural inclinings

  1. inclination

    The removal of the monarch and his court to the Brazils had tended to make the nobles less loyal in their inclinings[…]

    1836, J. R. Miller, The history of Great Britain, page 690
    1 more example

    185?, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit Monsieur Rigaud sometimes stopped, as if he were going to put his case in a new light, or make some irate remonstrance; but Signor Cavalletto continuing to go slowly to and fro at a grotesque kind of jog-trot pace with his eyes turned downward, nothing came of these inclinings.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounthe act of inclining; bending forward

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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