propend
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin prōpendēre.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]propend (third-person singular simple present propends, present participle propending, simple past and past participle propended)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To incline or lean.
- To be inclined; to have a propensity to.
- 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
- 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.
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