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colourishing

colourishing is the present participle and gerund of colourish.

Meaning of colourish

Verb

colourish (third-person singular simple present colourishes, present participle colourishing, simple past and past participle colourished)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To add colour to, to brighten with colour.
    • Would truth dispense, we could be content, with Plato, that knowledge were but Remembrance; that Intellectuall acquisition were but Reminiscentiall evocation, and new impressions but the colourishing of old stamps which stood pale in the soul before.1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 2nd edition, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Preface

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Questions about colourishing

What is colourishing the present participle and gerund of?
Colourishing is the present participle and gerund of colourish.

Words near colourishing in the dictionary

  1. colourised
  2. colouriser
  3. colourisers
  4. colourises
  5. colourish
  6. colourishing
  7. colourising
  8. colourism
  9. colourisms
  10. colourist
  11. colouristic

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