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disincline, v.|dɪsɪnˈklaɪn|
[f. dis- 6 + incline v.]
trans. To deprive of inclination; to make indisposed, averse, or unwilling.
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. iv. (1843) 115/2 It served..to disincline them from any reverence or affection to the queen. 1736Bolingbroke Patriot. (1749) 242, I know that they disinclined men from the succession. 1804Castlereagh in Owen Wellesley's Desp. 252 The jealousy which even then disinclined the Peishwa to place himself in our hands. 1846D. King Lord's Supper iv. 106 He disinclines us for sin. 1878Bayne Purit. Rev. ii. 33 Other considerations..might well disincline him to a warlike expedition.
absol.1790H. More Relig. Fash. World (1791) 13 It is not perplexed argument or intricate metaphysics, which can now disincline from Christianity.
b. intr. To be indisposed or unwilling; to incline not (to do something).
1885G. Meredith Diana I. i. 19 She..believed, as men disincline to do, that they grow. |