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companing

companing is the present participle and gerund of compane.

Meaning of compane

Verb

compane (third-person singular simple present companes, present participle companing, simple past and past participle companed)

  1. (obsolete) To associate with.
    • Dioclesians fiftie daughters shene / Into this land by chaunce haue driuen bene, / Where companing with feends and filthy Sprights, / Through vaine illusion of their lust vnclene, / They brought forth Giants […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about companing

What is companing the present participle and gerund of?
Companing is the present participle and gerund of compane.

Words near companing in the dictionary

  1. companies register
  2. companies registers
  3. companiform
  4. companimal
  5. companimals
  6. companing
  7. companion
  8. companion animal
  9. companion animals
  10. companion cell
  11. companion cells

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