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inclined
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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- inclined to be irritated
p. 52.4 *inclined = having a tendency
- But he had an approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove.†
p. 1.9
- "I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way."†
p. 2.1 *
- He was small and very plainly dressed, and the look of him, even at that distance, went somehow strongly against the watcher's inclination.†
p. 17.6
- My fears incline to the same point.†
p. 61.2
- I WAS born in the year 18— to a large fortune, endowed besides with excellent parts, inclined by nature to industry, fond of the respect of the wise and good among my fellow-men, and thus, as might have been supposed, with every guarantee of an honourable and distinguished future.†
p. 82.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(inclined as in: I'm inclined to) a tendency, mood, desire, or attitude that favors something; or making someone favor something
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(2)
(incline as in: on an incline or incline his head) to be at an angle or to bend
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)