Inclining
noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 inclination
"The removal of the monarch and his court to the Brazils had tended to make the nobles less loyal in their inclinings[…]"
- 2 the act of inclining; bending forward wordnet
- 1 present participle and gerund of incline form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"Before my own father passed away, we talked about the afterlife. My father had said that at his death, his "mind" would transfer to a newborn baby on a different faraway "planet," and there, he would grow up. Despite Roman Catholic and Baptist influences, my father believed in rebirth or reincarnation and other non-Xtian ideas. In the 1970s, he read books by Tuesday Lobsang Rampa and Erich von Däniken. Also my Filipino friend Greg believes in some non-Xtian ideas, despite that he claims to be a hardcore Baptist. It is difficult for others, especially Westerners, to understand my religious stance, of being a Syncretist, chiefly Buddhist-Animist, but not discounting other belief systems, and even inclining towards Science."
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