inclining

Etymology

verb

1. present participle and gerund of incline

noun

1. inclination
   The removal of the monarch and his court to the Brazils had tended to make the nobles less loyal in their inclinings[…] 1836, J. R. Miller, The history of Great Britain, page 690
   185?, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit Monsieur Rigaud sometimes stopped, as if he were going to put his case in a new light, or make some irate remonstrance; but Signor Cavalletto continuing to go slowly to and fro at a grotesque kind of jog-trot pace with his eyes turned downward, nothing came of these inclinings.