incline
verb (used without object)
to deviate from the vertical or horizontal; slant.
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
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Their King is in Warsaw; their King, if here, could do little; and indeed has been inclining to Maria Theresa this long while.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Thomas Carlyle