propend

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin prōpendēre.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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propend (third-person singular simple present propends, present participle propending, simple past and past participle propended)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To incline or lean.
  2. To be inclined; to have a propensity to.
    • 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
      Yet that which is above all this, the favour and the love of heav'n we have great argument to think in a peculiar manner propitious and propending towards us.
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