Lexicographical Neighbors of Disinclinations
Literary usage of Disinclinations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Christian Examiner (1830)
"In this place I shall confine myself to the question, whether those inclinations
and disinclinations which are proof against every change of circumstances ..."
2. Philosophy of Conduct: A Treatise of the Facts, Principles, and Ideals of Ethics by George Trumbull Ladd (1902)
"Virtuous living consists for man in large measure in cultivating certain
disinclinations and yet in acting in ways that are contrary to the same ..."
3. Faith and Folly by John Stephen Vaughan (1905)
"If certain inclinations or disinclinations lead to actions favourable to the
general well-being of the race, such inclinations or ..."
4. History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages: Der Wendepunkt der Renaissance by Woldemar von Seidlitz, Ferdinand Gregorovius, Annie Hamilton (1906)
"Personal inclinations and disinclinations played a great part. His sojourn in
Rome had become as intolerable as his progress in the Patrimony, ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly (1880)
"The emotions of the child, his inclinations and disinclinations, the development
of his sense of obligation, the beginning of the formation of his character ..."
6. The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the by Frederick Law Olmsted (1862)
"... by judicious play upon their inclinations and disinclinations, capable of
being trained quite beyond the most sagacious of our domestic animals, ..."
7. The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London (1911)
"... and when, with these various disinclinations, he finds himself on a smooth
flush-deck that is heeled over at an angle of forty-five degrees, ..."
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