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Definition of Leanings
1. leaning [n] - See also: leaning
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leanings
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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