DISINCLINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disincline mean? 

• DISINCLINE (verb)
  The verb DISINCLINE has 1 sense:

1. make unwilling

  Familiarity information: DISINCLINE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISINCLINE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they disincline    ... he / she / it disinclines   
Past simple: disinclined   
Past participle: disinclined   
-ing form: disinclining   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make unwilling

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

disincline; indispose

Hypernyms (to "disincline" is one way to...):

determine; influence; mold; regulate; shape (shape or influence; give direction to)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Derivation:

disinclination (a certain degree of unwillingness)

 Context examples 

White Fang was disinclined to desert him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He added that Mr. Bennet seemed wholly disinclined at present to leave London and promised to write again very soon.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Sir Thomas, drawing back from intimacies in general, was particularly disinclined, at this time, for any engagements but in one quarter.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Robert Martin would never have proceeded so far, if he had not felt persuaded of her not being disinclined to him.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I found my pupil sufficiently docile, though disinclined to apply: she had not been used to regular occupation of any kind.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

All that he said threw greatly into the shade Cornelius Agrippa, Albertus Magnus, and Paracelsus, the lords of my imagination; but by some fatality the overthrow of these men disinclined me to pursue my accustomed studies.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Their conversation the preceding evening did not disincline him to seek her again; and they walked together some time, talking as before of Mr Scott and Lord Byron, and still as unable as before, and as unable as any other two readers, to think exactly alike of the merits of either, till something occasioned an almost general change amongst their party, and instead of Captain Benwick, she had Captain Harville by her side.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Fanny was very anxious to be useful, and not to appear above her home, or in any way disqualified or disinclined, by her foreign education, from contributing her help to its comforts, and therefore set about working for Sam immediately; and by working early and late, with perseverance and great despatch, did so much that the boy was shipped off at last, with more than half his linen ready.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)