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made a very low inclination of her head to Mrs. General, and came loftily upright again.
Chpt 2.15 *

inclination = bend (or bow or angling)
I have not the present means of complying with such a demand, if I had ever so great an inclination.
Chpt 2.30 *

inclination = desire (an attitude favoring)
Are you inclined to enter upon business?'†
Chpt 1.5
'Am I inclined, Arthur?†
Chpt 1.5
The landlady, who had been at one moment thinking within herself that this was a handsome man, at another moment that this was an ill-looking man, observed the nose coming down and the moustache going up, and strongly inclined to the latter decision.†
Chpt 1.11
The polite and attentive stranger would desire, say, to consult her inclinations on the subject of potatoes.†
Chpt 1.13
'Let us say inclination.'†
Chpt 1.13
'I have an inclination to get money, sir,' said Pancks, 'if you will show me how.'†
Chpt 1.13
Mistress Affery having no taste for reading, and no sufficient light for needlework in the subdued room, supposing her to have the inclination, now sat every night in the dimness from which she had momentarily emerged on the evening of Arthur Clennam's return, occupied with crowds of wild speculations and suspicions respecting her mistress and her husband and the noises in the house.†
Chpt 1.15
'Well, Tattycoram,' returned Mr Meagles, 'since you ask the question, and we are all friends here, perhaps you may as well mention it, if you are so inclined.'†
Chpt 1.16
I am always inclined to call out, Church, Count five-and-twenty, Tattycoram.'†
Chpt 1.16
I do this so conscientiously, that I am happy to tell you I find the most worthless of men to be the dearest old fellow too: and am in a condition to make the gratifying report, that there is much less difference than you are inclined to suppose between an honest man and a scoundrel.'†
Chpt 1.17
'My dear Frederick,' returned the other, 'don't let me detain you; don't sacrifice your inclination to me.'†
Chpt 1.19
He was inclined to remonstrate, and to express his opinion that people who couldn't get on without crying, had no business there.†
Chpt 1.19
If Young John Chivery had had the inclination and the power to write a satire on family pride, he would have had no need to go for an avenging illustration out of the family of his beloved.†
Chpt 1.20
An impression of disappointment, occasioned by the discovery that Mr Clennam scarcely possessed that delicacy for which, in the confidence of his nature, he had been inclined to give him credit, began to darken the fatherly mind in connection with that gentleman.†
Chpt 1.22
Not the least of these would have been a contention, always waging within it, between a tendency to dislike Mr Henry Gowan, if not to regard him with positive repugnance, and a whisper that the inclination was unworthy.†
Chpt 1.26
Clennam inclined his head, as a generally suitable reply to what he did not yet quite understand.†
Chpt 1.26
There's an inclination on the part of my dear child which I am sorry for.†
Chpt 1.27
When they were gone, the Father of the Marshalsea was at first inclined to sink into despondency again, and would have done so, but that a gentleman opportunely came up within a minute or two to attend him to the Snuggery.†
Chpt 1.31
The insinuating traveller, acknowledging the flourish with an inclination of his head, passed from the Chief to the second young lady, who had not yet been referred to otherwise than as one of the ladies in whose behalf he felt so sensitive an interest.†
Chpt 2.1
She went down, not easily hiding how much she was inclined to shrink and tremble; for the appearance of this traveller was particularly disagreeable to her.†
Chpt 2.1
Mrs General gravely inclined her head.†
Chpt 2.2
'May we incline to the supposition,' said Mrs General, with a little touch of varnish, 'that something is referable to the novelty of the position?'†
Chpt 2.5
Thus he had taken up with him; and thus, negligently strengthening these inclinations with habit, and idly deriving some amusement from his talk, he had glided into a way of having him for a companion.†
Chpt 2.6
Miss Fanny had no recollection of having ever seen him before, and was passing on, with a distant inclination of her head, when he announced himself by name.†
Chpt 2.6
It made her anxious and ill at ease to be operated upon by that smoothing hand, it is true; but she submitted herself to the family want in its greatness as she had submitted herself to the family want in its littleness, and yielded to her own inclinations in this thing no more than she had yielded to her hunger itself, in the days when she had saved her dinner that her father might have his supper.†
Chpt 2.7
On his imparting the news to Gowan, that Master gave Mr Dorrit to the Devil with great liberality some round dozen of times (for he resented patronage almost as much as he resented the want of it), and was inclined to quarrel with his friend for bringing him the message.†
Chpt 2.7
While pursuing this routine, she looked at Clennam with an expression of such intense severity that he felt obliged to look at her in return, against his personal inclinations.†
Chpt 2.9
It looked at first as if I was taking on myself to understand and explain so much, that I was half inclined not to send it.†
Chpt 2.11
But she was not the less surprised and curious for asking no more questions; neither was Mr Pancks, whose expressive breathing had been labouring hard since the entrance of the little man, like a locomotive engine with a great load getting up a steep incline.†
Chpt 2.13
'Right in sharing Cavalletto's inclination to speculate with Mr Merdle?'†
Chpt 2.13
'—I therefore wish to announce to you, madam, that my daughter now present—' Mrs General made a slight inclination of her head to Fanny, who made a very low inclination of her head to Mrs General, and came loftily upright again.†
Chpt 2.15
After yielding herself up, in this pattern manner, to sisterly advice and the force of circumstances, Fanny became quite benignant: as one who had laid her own inclinations at the feet of her dearest friend, and felt a glow of conscience in having made the sacrifice.†
Chpt 2.15
Ultimately he was inclined to think that there was no reverence in the man, no sentiment in the great creature.†
Chpt 2.16
He was so inclined to be angry that she said nothing more in her justification, but remained quietly beside him embracing his arm.†
Chpt 2.19
For this reason I have for some time inclined to tell you what my life has been—not to propitiate your opinion, for I set no value on it; but that you may comprehend, when you think of your dear friend and his dear wife, what I mean by hating.†
Chpt 2.20
He said a word or two of leave-taking; but Miss Wade barely inclined her head, and Harriet, with the assumed humiliation of an abject dependent and serf (but not without defiance for all that), made as if she were too low to notice or to be noticed.†
Chpt 2.20
Your dear friend amused me and amused himself as long as it suited his inclinations; and then reminded me that we were both people of the world, that we both understood mankind, that we both knew there was no such thing as romance, that we were both prepared for going different ways to seek our fortunes like people of sense, and that we both foresaw that whenever we encountered one another again we should meet as the best friends on earth.†
Chpt 2.21
'No, thank you,' said Mr Merdle, 'I don't feel inclined for it.†
Chpt 2.24
But as I didn't feel inclined for dinner, I let Mrs Merdle go by herself just as we were getting into the carriage, and thought I'd take a stroll instead.'†
Chpt 2.24
HE ENCOUNTERED HIS RIVAL IN A DISTRESSED STATE, AND FELT INCLINED TO HAVE A ROUND WITH HIM; BUT, FOR THE SAKE OF THE LOVED ONE, CONQUERED THOSE FEELINGS OF BITTERNESS, AND BECAME MAGNANIMOUS.†
Chpt 2.27
I don't often intrude upon you now, when I look round, because I know you are not inclined for company, and that if you wished to see me, you would leave word in the Lodge.†
Chpt 2.28
'As to myself, sir,' said Mr Rugg, hoping that his eloquence had reduced him to a state of indecision, 'it is a principle of mine not to consider myself when a client's inclinations are in the scale.†
Chpt 2.28
Will you say that you have not the inclination?'†
Chpt 2.30
As to the inclination.†
Chpt 2.30
Come to the inclination, and I know what to do.'†
Chpt 2.30
'It would seem that you have obtained possession of a paper—or of papers—which I assuredly have the inclination to recover.'†
Chpt 2.30
Here was poor Mr Sparkler, not knowing how to keep the peace between them, but humbly inclining to the opinion that they could do no better than agree that they were both remarkably fine women, and that there was no nonsense about either of them—for which gentle recommendation they united in falling upon him frightfully.†
Chpt 2.33
'I made a remark a little while ago,' said Daniel Doyce then, 'which I am inclined to think was an incorrect one.†
Chpt 2.34

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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
(2) (incline as in: on an incline or incline his head)
to be at an angle or to bend
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