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inclining en · NOUN

Meanings

  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:
    • 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.

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inclining en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of incline
    form of incline