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Definition of Disinclines
1. disincline [v] - See also: disincline
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disinclines
Literary usage of Disinclines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sabbath Evening Lectures: Or, the Refuge of Lies and the Covert from the by Benjamin Ingersol Lane (1844)
"Universalism makes the heart of the righteous sad, because it never begets a
spirit of prayer, but disinclines to the practice of it all those who embrace ..."
2. Sermons, on Doctrinal and Experimental Subjects by Seth Williston (1812)
"{Jbn ^8-it prevails, disinclines us to act freely to- . ... and when it becomes
total, it wholly disinclines us to act freely towards ,;. ..."
3. The Dialogues of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1872)
"... allowed to exercise any ignoble occupation, of which the vulgarity deters a
freeman, and disinclines him to acquire riches by any such means. _ . ..."
4. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"On the contrary, having the amiable vanity which knits us to those who are fond
of us, and disinclines us to those who are indifferent, and also a good ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1851)
"LS As I happen to feel an interest in the subject which disinclines me to rest
satisfied with the foregoing hasty—not to say flippant explanation of the ..."
6. The Contemporary Review (1874)
"It is unfortunate that a slight ambiguity in one or two passages obscures the
drift of the poem, and disinclines its readers ..."
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