All 7 Uses of
inclined
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Meanwhile, they shall be at the command of any gentleman, inclined and competent, to take the unprofitable labour off my hands.
Chpt Intr.inclined = desirous (having an attitude favoring)
- The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.
Chpt Intr.inclined = with a tendency
- And we must needs say it seared Hester's bosom so deeply, that perhaps there was more truth in the rumour than our modern incredulity may be inclined to admit.
Chpt 5
- Individuals of wiser faith, indeed, who knew that Heaven promotes its purposes without aiming at the stage-effect of what is called miraculous interposition, were inclined to see a providential hand in Roger Chillingworth's so opportune arrival.
Chpt 9
- Roger Chillingworth, however, was inclined to be hardly, if at all, less satisfied with the aspect of affairs, which Providence—using the avenger and his victim for its own purposes, and, perchance, pardoning, where it seemed most to punish—had substituted for his black devices.
Chpt 11
- Interpreting Hester Prynne's deportment as an appeal of this nature, society was inclined to show its former victim a more benign countenance than she cared to be favoured with, or, perchance, than she deserved.
Chpt 13 *
- The Puritans looked on, and, if they smiled, were none the less inclined to pronounce the child a demon offspring, from the indescribable charm of beauty and eccentricity that shone through her little figure, and sparkled with its activity.
Chpt 22
Definition:
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(inclined as in: I'm inclined to) a tendency, mood, desire, or attitude that favors something; or making someone favor something