Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Inclining forward or toward anything.
  • In botany, hanging forward and downward.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Inclining forward or toward.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Inclining forward or toward.

Etymologies

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Latin propendens.

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Examples

  • In respect of the nature of the thing itself; which we have seen is equally propendent to both parts, and not discernible which way the balance inclines: and nothing can be more irrational, than to be dogmatical in things doubtful; and to deter mine, where wise men only dispute.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823

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