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  • verb Present participle of disincline.

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Examples

  • El Creepo produced the boxes from somewhere inside his I’m afraid I’m going to have go ahead and say it fairly nasty overcoat, disinclining me to touch any of them.

    The Speculist: Stillness Part VI, Chapter 59 2005

  • El Creepo produced the boxes from somewhere inside his I’m afraid I’m going to have go ahead and say it fairly nasty overcoat, disinclining me to touch any of them.

    The Speculist: January 2005 Archives 2004

  • This inward inclination, which made itself felt very early in the German race, by bringing out the contemplative and independent sides of his character, and so disinclining him for combined action with his fellows, forwarded the growth of the over-ripe seeds of classic culture and vital Christianity.

    The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Alfred Biese 1893

  • The main seat of the imitative part of our nature is our belief, and the causes predisposing us to believe this, or disinclining us to believe that, are among the obscurest parts of our nature.

    Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society Walter Bagehot 1851

  • People that are for ever speaking kindly, are for ever disinclining themselves to ill-temper.

    Friends and Neighbors 1847

  • It is supposed that the high rates of labour will operate chiefly in disinclining the farmers to extend their operations; and if this at the same time affords them leisure and motive to attend better to the state of their clips, it will ultimately have an effect rather beneficial than otherwise.

    Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 435 Volume 17, New Series, May 1, 1852 Various 1836

  • Now human nature inclines us to do things that are 'fun' to us, while disinclining us from doing things that are 'chore-some' to us.

    EzineArticles 2010

  • This assertion is based on the fact that the U.N. Security Council passed a number of resolutions calling on Iran to halt its enrichment activities and imposing sanctions on the country for disinclining to acquiesce to the U.N. demand.

    MyAntiwar.org 2009

  • The Israelis imagined that the provision of extensive social services and religion to Palestinians would de-politicize them by relieving their suffering and disinclining them to nationalist, anti-occupation resistance.

    MRZine.org 2009

  • This favourable result I attribute to (1) a good constitution -- and an elastic temperament; (2) simple tastes, disinclining me to stimulants and narcotics, such as tea, coffee, wine, spirits, and tobacco; (3) a love of athletic exercises; (4) a life-long habit of writing by daylight only; (5) the use of homoeopathic medicines in the early stages of slight ailments.

    Study and Stimulants; Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life Alfred Arthur Reade

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