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Tending

noun

1.

The work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something. Synonyms: aid, attention, care. "The old car needs constant attention"

adjective

1.

(usually followed by 'to') naturally disposed toward. Synonyms: apt, disposed, given, minded. "I am not minded to answer any questions"

Tend

verb

(past & past part. tended; pres. part. tending)

1.

Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined. Synonyms: be given, incline, lean, run. "These dresses run small" , "He inclined to corpulence"

2.

Have care of or look after.

3.

Manage or run.

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... is recognized universally nowadays to be altogether inadequate. There is, in every proper sense, an English constitution. No small portion of it, indeed, is in written form. And it is worth observing that in practice there is tending to be established in England in our own day some measure of that (p. 047) distinction between constituent and legislative functions which obtains in other countries. There is no disposition to strip from Parliament its constituent powers; but the feeling is gaining ground ...

— The Governments of Europe • Frederic Austin Ogg

... again and again, and once more he was conscious of a stirring of anger, of revolt, such as he had felt on the night after Hermione's departure when he was alone on the terrace. She was his wife, his woman. What right had she to be tending another man? His imagination began to work quickly now, and he frowned as he looked up at the blue. He forgot all the rest of Hermione's letter, all her love of him and her longing to be back in Sicily with him, and thought only of her friendship ...

— The Call of the Blood • Robert Smythe Hichens

... answer. "He is catching fish in the warm waters of the sheltered bay; or, mayhap, he is tending his cows in the open sea, just around ...

— The Story of Siegfried • James Baldwin

... view of Jerusalem, a feature which comes much more boldly into prominence here than in Deuteronomy; the nation and the temple are strictly speaking identified. That externalisation towards which the prophetical movement, in order to become practical, had already been tending in Deuteronomy finally achieved its acme in the legislation of Ezra; a new artificial Israel was the result; but, after all, the old would have pleased an Amos better. At the same time it must be remembered that the kernel needed ...

— Prolegomena to the History of Israel • Julius Wellhausen

... he was aware too, now and again, of strange voices by his side, strange faces tending him. But they were black faces, all, and the voices spoke in deep guttural tones, unlike even the clicks and harsh Bantu jerks with which he had grown so familiar in eighteen months among the Barolong. This that he heard ...

— What's Bred In the Bone • Grant Allen

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