Definition of Leanings

1. Noun. (plural of leaning) ¹

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Definition of Leanings

1. leaning [n] - See also: leaning

Lexicographical Neighbors of Leanings

lean back
lean client
lean clients
lean finely textured beef
lean on
lean towards
leaned
leaner
leaners
leanest
leaneth
leaning
leaning against
leaning board
leaningly
leanings (current term)
leanly
leanness
leannesses
leans
leant
leanwash
leany
leap
leap-of-faith
leap-year
leap day
leap days
leap frog
leap in the dark

Literary usage of Leanings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"He was also suspected of leanings to wards Islam. The Khalifa Omar II (717-20) tried to convert him, without success, except as far as persuading him that ..."

2. History of English Nonconformity from Wiclif to the Close of the Nineteenth by Henry William Clark (1911)
"Cromwell's personal leanings, however, in regard to the Friends, as in regard to the Episcopalians, were in the direction of being kind when he could. ..."

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