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Synonyms for leanings
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : lee-ning |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈli nɪŋ |
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Définition of leanings
Origin :- "action or state of leaning," 1776, from lean (v.).
- noun tendency, bias
- 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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