Propend

//pɹə(ʊ)ˈpɛnd// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To incline or lean. intransitive, obsolete
  2. 2
    To be inclined; to have a propensity to.

    "Yet that which is above all this, the favour and the love of heav'n we have great argument to think in a peculiar manner propitious and propending towards us."

Example

More examples

"Yet that which is above all this, the favour and the love of heav'n we have great argument to think in a peculiar manner propitious and propending towards us."

Etymology

From Latin prōpendēre.

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