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Definition of Leaning

1. Adjective. Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal. "The headstones were tilted"

2. Noun. An inclination to do something. "He felt leanings toward frivolity"

3. Noun. A natural inclination. "He has a proclivity for exaggeration"

4. Noun. The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical. "He walked with a heavy inclination to the right"

5. Noun. The act of deviating from a vertical position.

Definition of Leaning

1. n. The act, or state, of inclining; inclination; tendency; as, a leaning towards Calvinism.

Definition of Leaning

1. Noun. A tendency. ¹

2. Verb. (present participle of lean) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Leaning

1. a tendency [n -S] - See also: tendency

Lexicographical Neighbors of Leaning

lean-tos lean-witted lean against lean and mean lean back lean client lean clients lean finely textured beef lean on lean towards

leaned leaner leaners leanest leaneth leaning (current term) leaning against leaning board leaningly leanings

leanly leanness leannesses leans leant leanwash leany leap leap-of-faith leap-year

Literary usage of Leaning

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

1. Southern Literary Messenger (1849)
"... and side-wayi leaning, dragging the sail over toward Jackson whose business it was to confine the reef corner to the yard. " His hat and shoes were off; ..."

2. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1899)
"CHAPTER VII Of the Cause of a leaning to Pantheism 'Amongst Democratic Nations I SHALL take occasion hereafter to show under what form the preponderating ..."

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