All 8 Uses of
inclined
in
The Phantom of the Opera
- When Carlotta heard of the astounding reception bestowed upon her understudy, she was at once cured of an incipient attack of bronchitis and a bad fit of sulking against the management and lost the slightest inclination to shirk her duties.†
Chpt 7 *inclination = tendency; or desire
- They had no inclination to laugh.†
Chpt 7
- I was at first inclined to be suspicious; but when the Persian had told me, with child-like candor, all that he knew about the ghost and had handed me the proofs of the ghost's existence—including the strange correspondence of Christine Daae—to do as I pleased with, I was no longer able to doubt.†
Chpt Prol.
- They must have been dining, sir, and seemed more inclined to lark about than to listen to good music.†
Chpt 4
- But allow me to tell you what I have seen—and I have seen more than you suspect, Christine—or what I thought I saw, for, to tell you the truth, I have sometimes been inclined to doubt the evidence of my eyes.†
Chpt 10
- I felt inclined to laugh and to cry at the same time.†
Chpt 12
- I am more inclined to think that the shadow was that of the ghost, who knew all about the whole affair, as the reader will soon perceive.†
Chpt 13
- Had I been inclined to superstition, I should have certainly thought that I had to do with some siren whose business it was to confound the traveler who should venture on the waters of the house on the lake.†
Chpt 21
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
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus