adjective
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having an inclination or tendency (to); disposed (to)
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capable of being inclined
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Etymology
Origin of inclinable
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at incline, -able
Example Sentences
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I beg reflections pass not upon my wife, for I declare, whatever wrongs she may have committed, was through my persuasion, of herself being inclinable to good.
From Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences by Hayward, Arthur L.
Two things surpris'd all Europe upon that Treaty, the first was, that France should be so inclinable to hearken to a Peace after a War, in which he had always been successful.
From Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins (1718) by Defoe, Daniel
That Minister seem'd inclinable to serve me, and promis'd to speak for me to the King his Master.
He was a person very inclinable to follow such advices, and therefore readily came into these proposals as soon as they were made.
From Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences by Hayward, Arthur L.
Thus, whilst they indulged their impotent malice, they made him, who was not well affected to them before, a greater enemy to their licentiousness, and rendered him more inclinable to the Lutheran cause.
From Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by Howie, John
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