propend

English

Etymology

From Latin prōpendēre.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɹə(ʊ)ˈpɛnd/

Verb

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.

Related terms

• propensity