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Grammar : Noun

Spell : lee-ning

Phonetic Transcription : ˈli nɪŋ

Definition of leanings

Origin : "action or state of leaning," 1776, from lean (v.).

noun tendency, bias

Example sentences :

She did not think it; he seemed to have no leanings that way either.
Extract from : « Fair Margaret » by H. Rider Haggard

My leanings—my instincts, if you prefer it—were with the Crown.
Extract from : « The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) » by Charles James Lever

Baldwin's leanings, so far as he had any, were in the same direction.
Extract from : « The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion, Volume 1 » by John Charles Dent

His leanings were all towards the old standards of thought and style.
Extract from : « Historical and Political Essays » by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Leanings and inclinations are inherited not less than bodily peculiarities.
Extract from : « My Doggie and I » by R.M. Ballantyne

Will be better out of Germany altogether, with his French leanings.
Extract from : « History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XIV. (of XXI.) » by Thomas Carlyle

If the leanings of the paper were distasteful to the readers, they ceased to buy the paper.
Extract from : « Introduction to the Science of Sociology » by Robert E. Park

Meanwhile, the Spanish leanings of Charles had been intensified.
Extract from : « Europe in the Sixteenth Century 1494-1598, Fifth Edition » by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Johnson

Any professor with leanings to Kant or Comte was sent to Coventry.
Extract from : « The Religious Persecution in France 1900-1906 » by Jane Milliken Napier Brodhead

And that leanings toward this doctrine were to be found in the Zohar they could not deny.
Extract from : « History of the Jews, Vol. V (of 6) » by Heinrich Graetz

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