All 13 Uses
inclined
in
Walden
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- I am inclined to answer her with equal mystery,
Chpt 1 *inclined = in the mood (with a tendency to)
- sitting on a ladder sunning themselves, with their bodies inclined forward
Chpt 8 *inclined = bent (or angled)
- I think that in the railroad car we are inclined to spend more on luxury than on safety and convenience, and it threatens without attaining these to become no better than a modern drawing-room, with its divans, and ottomans, and sun-shades, and a hundred other oriental things, which we are taking west with us, invented for the ladies of the harem and the effeminate natives of the Celestial Empire, which Jonathan should be ashamed to know the names of.†
Chpt 1
- May be the man you hoe with is inclined to race; then, by gorry, your mind must be there; you think of weeds.†
Chpt 6
- But I confess that I am now inclined to think that there is a finer way of studying ornithology than this.†
Chpt 11
- I believe that every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food, and from much food of any kind.†
Chpt 11
- Else man not only is the herd of swine, But he's those devils too which did incline Them to a headlong rage, and made them worse.†
Chpt 11
- The deepest part was found to be within one hundred feet of this, still farther in the direction to which I had inclined, and was only one foot deeper, namely, sixty feet.†
Chpt 16
- Also there is a bar across the entrance of our every cove, or particular inclination; each is our harbor for a season, in which we are detained and partially land-locked.†
Chpt 16
- These inclinations are not whimsical usually, but their form, size, and direction are determined by the promontories of the shore, the ancient axes of elevation.†
Chpt 16
- When this bar is gradually increased by storms, tides, or currents, or there is a subsidence of the waters, so that it reaches to the surface, that which was at first but an inclination in the shore in which a thought was harbored becomes an individual lake, cut off from the ocean, wherein the thought secures its own conditions—changes, perhaps, from salt to fresh, becomes a sweet sea, dead sea, or a marsh.†
Chpt 16
- Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half-witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.†
Chpt 18
- This generation inclines a little to congratulate itself on being the last of an illustrious line; and in Boston and London and Paris and Rome, thinking of its long descent, it speaks of its progress in art and science and literature with satisfaction.†
Chpt 18
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)