All 8 Uses of
inclined
in
Dracula
- I don't mean one of those two-pages-to-the-week-with-Sunday-squeezed-in-a-corner diaries, but a sort of journal which I can write in whenever I feel inclined.
p. 62.6inclined = in the mood
- They, an' all grims an' signs an' warnin's, be all invented by parsons an' illsome berk-bodies an' railway touters to skeer an' scunner hafflin's, an' to get folks to do somethin' that they don't other incline to.
p. 74.1incline = tend to want
- She ought not to have much inclination for sleep-walking then.
p. 98.9 *inclination = tendency
- I was a little inclined to take his seriousness lightly, for, after all, four days of rest and freedom from burning, harrowing, anxiety does help to restore one's spirits, but when I saw his face, it sobered me.
p. 203.7inclined = with a tendency
- We asked Vincent to what he attributed them, and he replied that it must have been a bite of some animal, perhaps a rat, but for his own part, he was inclined to think it was one of the bats which are so numerous on the northern heights of London.
p. 208.7
- I was myself tolerably patient, and half inclined again to throw aside doubt and to accept Van Helsing's conclusions.
p. 224.1
- At first I inclined to slack off sail and beat about till the fog was lifted.
p. 370.4inclined = had an attitude that favored
- If I did simply follow my inclining I would do now, at this moment, what is to be done.†
p. 215.2 *
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