Definition of Disinclinations

1. disinclination [n] - See also: disinclination

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disinclinations

disimprovements
disincarcerate
disincarcerated
disincarcerates
disincarcerating
disincarnate
disincarnated
disincarnates
disincarnating
disincentive
disincentives
disincentivise
disincentivize
disincentivized
disinclination
disinclinations
disincline
disinclined
disinclines
disinclining
disinclose
disinclosed
disincloses
disinclosing
disincorporate
disincorporated
disincorporates
disincorporating
disincorporation
disincorporations

Literary usage of Disinclinations

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Christian Examiner (1830)
"In this place I shall confine myself to the question, whether those inclinations and disinclinations which are proof against every change of circumstances ..."

2. Philosophy of Conduct: A Treatise of the Facts, Principles, and Ideals of Ethics by George Trumbull Ladd (1902)
"Virtuous living consists for man in large measure in cultivating certain disinclinations and yet in acting in ways that are contrary to the same ..."

3. Faith and Folly by John Stephen Vaughan (1905)
"If certain inclinations or disinclinations lead to actions favourable to the general well-being of the race, such inclinations or ..."

4. History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages: Der Wendepunkt der Renaissance by Woldemar von Seidlitz, Ferdinand Gregorovius, Annie Hamilton (1906)
"Personal inclinations and disinclinations played a great part. His sojourn in Rome had become as intolerable as his progress in the Patrimony, ..."

5. The Popular Science Monthly (1880)
"The emotions of the child, his inclinations and disinclinations, the development of his sense of obligation, the beginning of the formation of his character ..."

6. The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the by Frederick Law Olmsted (1862)
"... by judicious play upon their inclinations and disinclinations, capable of being trained quite beyond the most sagacious of our domestic animals, ..."

7. The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London (1911)
"... and when, with these various disinclinations, he finds himself on a smooth flush-deck that is heeled over at an angle of forty-five degrees, ..."

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