well-inclined

• a word derived from inclined.

Example Sentences

It would impress on the well-inclined and the industrious the futility of honest and persevering endeavor, inasmuch as idleness could get itself better cared for than laborious poverty.

From A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)

The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or never reclaims the vicious.

From The Battle of the Books and other Short Pieces by Swift, Jonathan

The well-inclined Sangleys offered themselves for any toil, because of their rage against the Dutch.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 17 of 55 1609-1616 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

Some of his chief men, as I hear, stand well-inclined to hear the Gospel, and himself is a person of good understanding and knowledge in the best things.

From King Philip Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

This leaves me at such confusion and uncertainty, that my servants know not when to obey me; and my tenants, although many of them be very well-inclined, seem quite at a loss.

From Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 by Daly, J. Bowles (John Bowles)

Related Words

• apt
• prone
• willing