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Declining vs Inclining - What's the difference?

declining | inclining |

As verbs the difference between declining and inclining

is that declining is present participle of lang=en while inclining is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between declining and inclining

is that declining is decline while inclining is inclination.

declining

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • decline
  • * John Whitgift
    • For they had no civil magistrate which might correct and reform those declinings when they happened.

    inclining

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • inclination
  • * 1836 , J. R. Miller, The history of Great Britain (page 690)
    • The removal of the monarch and his court to the Brazils had tended to make the nobles less loyal in their inclinings