All 6 Uses of
disinclined
in
Mansfield Park
- "I pay very little regard," said Mrs. Grant, "to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person."
Chpt 4 *disinclination = reluctance (to do something)
- Dr. Grant laughingly congratulated Miss Crawford on feeling no disinclination to the state herself.
Chpt 4
- There was no natural disinclination to be overcome, and I see no reason why a man should make a worse clergyman for knowing that he will have a competence early in life.
Chpt 11disinclination = reluctance
- Sir Thomas, drawing back from intimacies in general, was particularly disinclined, at this time, for any engagements but in one quarter.
Chpt 21disinclined = reluctant
- But at other times doubt and alarm intermingled with his hopes; and when he thought of her acknowledged disinclination for privacy and retirement, her decided preference of a London life, what could he expect but a determined rejection? unless it were an acceptance even more to be deprecated, demanding such sacrifices of situation and employment on his side as conscience must forbid.
Chpt 26disinclination = attitude of mind that does not favor
- Fanny was very anxious to be useful, and not to appear above her home, or in any way disqualified or disinclined, by her foreign education, from contributing her help to its comforts, and therefore set about working for Sam immediately; and by working early and late, with perseverance and great despatch, did so much that the boy was shipped off at last, with more than half his linen ready.
Chpt 39disinclined = reluctant
Definition:
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(disinclined) feeling reluctant to do something