All 13 Uses
inclined
in
1776, by McCullough
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- Many had volunteered on the condition that they could elect their own officers, and the officers, in turn, were inclined out of laziness, or for the sake of their own popularity, to let those in the ranks do much as they pleased.†
p. 31.8
- As scathing as any eyewitness description was that provided by a precocious young New Englander of Loyalist inclinations named Benjamin Thompson, who, after being refused a commission by Washington, served in the British army, later settled in Europe, renamed himself Count Rumford, and ultimately became one of the era's prominent men of science.†
p. 32.3 *
- For every full-fledged deserter there were a half-dozen others inclined to stroll off on almost any pretext, to do a little clam digging perhaps, or who might vanish for several weeks to see wives and children, help with the harvest at home, or ply their trades for some much-needed "hard money."†
p. 37.8
- On the contrary, William Howe had little inclination ever to rush things.†
p. 72.4
- The country had no poets as yet, and Washington was not known to be inclined to poetry or poetic musings.†
p. 90.3
- He knew he could be difficult, inclined to "speak too freely," that he was touchy and that in discussion his excessive zeal often worked to his disadvantage.†
p. 165.2
- Clinton would later write of Howe's decision to halt: "I had at the moment but little inclination to check the ardor of our troops when I saw the enemy flying in such a panic before them."†
p. 178.8
- The infinite pains and labor which they must have bestowed, one would have thought, from regret alone, would have inclined them to make some kind of stand.†
p. 221.1
- I am therefore inclined to think it will not be prudent to hazard the men and stores.†
p. 235.8
- In his letter to Greene from White Plains, Washington had said he was "inclined to think" it prudent to abandon the fort, but left the decision to Greene, who was "on the spot."†
p. 237.4
- At age thirty-seven, he was at his professional prime but, unlike Howe, a man with no bad habits or inclinations to self-indulgence, and if not as intellectually gifted as Clinton, he had no peevish or contrary side.†
p. 253.1
- The enclosed was put into my hands by an express [rider]....Having no idea of its being a private letter ...I opened it....This, as it is the truth, must be my excuse for seeing the contents of a letter which neither inclination or intention would have prompted me to.†
p. 255.1
- "God Almighty," wrote Nathanael Greene, "inclined their hearts to listen to the proposal and they engaged anew."†
p. 286.1
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)