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antheming

antheming is the present participle and gerund of anthem.

Meaning of anthem

Verb

anthem (third-person singular simple present anthems, present participle antheming, simple past and past participle anthemed)

  1. (poetic, transitive) To celebrate with anthems.
    • [T]hou shalt hear / Distant harvest-carols clear; / Rustle of the reaped corn; / Sweet birds antheming the morn: [...]1819 (date written), John Keats, “Fancy”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, page 124

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Questions about antheming

What is antheming the present participle and gerund of?
Antheming is the present participle and gerund of anthem.

Words near antheming in the dictionary

  1. anthemed
  2. anthemia
  3. anthemic
  4. anthemically
  5. anthemics
  6. antheming
  7. anthemion
  8. anthemions
  9. anthemiphylliid
  10. anthemiphylliids
  11. anthemis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: antheming (page history and authors); anthem (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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