Word.ws English Dictionary

avocating

avocating is the present participle and gerund of avocate.

Meaning of avocate

Verb

avocate (third-person singular simple present avocates, present participle avocating, simple past and past participle avocated)

  1. (obsolete) To call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another tribunal.
    • Stage-playes and dancing avocate and with-hold men from Gods worſhip1632 (indicated as 1633), William Prynne, Histrio-mastix. The Players Scourge, or, Actors Tragædie, […], London: […] E[lizabeth] A[llde,] [Thomas Cotes, Augustine Matthews] and W[illiam] I[ones] for...

Questions about avocating

What is avocating the present participle and gerund of?
Avocating is the present participle and gerund of avocate.

Words near avocating in the dictionary

  1. avocados
  2. avocat
  3. avocate
  4. avocated
  5. avocates
  6. avocating
  7. avocation
  8. avocational
  9. avocationally
  10. avocations
  11. avocative

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: avocating (page history and authors); avocate (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “avocating.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/avocating. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.