propend

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UK/pɹə(ʊ)ˈpɛnd/

verb

To incline or lean.

OriginLatin prōpendēre →
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Meanings

verbpropend (third-person singular simple present propends, present participle propending, simple past and past participle propended)

present singular third person propends · participle present propending · participle past propended · past propended

  1. intransitiveobsoleteTo incline or lean.
  2. To be inclined; to have a propensity to.

    Yet that which is above all this, the favour and the love of heav'n we have great argument to think in a peculiar manner propitious and propending towards us.

    1644, John Milton, Areopagitica

Origin

  1. Latinprōpendēre
  2. Englishpropend

From Latin prōpendēre.

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APA

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Chicago

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