inclining

inclining

1. present participle and gerund of incline

inclining (plural inclinings)

1. inclination
   • 1836, J. R. Miller, The history of Great Britain, page 690:

     The removal of the monarch and his court to the Brazils had tended to make the nobles less loyal in their inclinings […]

   • 185?, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

     Monsieur Rigaud sometimes stopped, as if he were going to put his case in a new light, or make some irate remonstrance; but Signor Cavalletto continuing to go slowly to and fro at a grotesque kind of jog-trot pace with his eyes turned downward, nothing came of these inclinings.