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cavaliering

cavaliering is the present participle and gerund of cavalier.

Meaning of cavalier

Verb

cavalier (third-person singular simple present cavaliers, present participle cavaliering, simple past and past participle cavaliered)

  1. (dated, transitive) Of a man: to act in a gallant and dashing manner toward (women).
    • His social and kind nature is inferred from his cavaliering the ladies Percy and Mortimer, and introducing them, before their husbands depart for the war.1863, Charles Cowden Clarke, Shakespeare-characters; Chiefly Those Subordinate, page 427

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Questions about cavaliering

What is cavaliering the present participle and gerund of?
Cavaliering is the present participle and gerund of cavalier.

Words near cavaliering in the dictionary

  1. cavaliere serventes
  2. cavaliered
  3. Cavalieres
  4. Cavalieri
  5. Cavalieri's principle
  6. cavaliering
  7. Cavalieris
  8. cavalierish
  9. cavalierishness
  10. cavalierism
  11. cavalierisms

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