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compassings

compassings is the plural of compassing.

Meaning of compassing

Noun

compassing (plural compassings)

  1. (dated) The forming of plots or schemes; machination.
    • If this proposition needed a reply, it would be sufficient to point to what we have already shown. But take the external circumstances surrounding the case, and they discover that inward intention of the prisoner. His deliberate compassings, the nature and character of the act done, the...1878, Texas. Court of Appeals, Alexander Melvorne Jackson, Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of the State of Texas

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Questions about compassings

What is compassings the plural of?
Compassings is the plural of compassing.

Words near compassings in the dictionary

  1. compasses out
  2. compassest
  3. compasseth
  4. compassing
  5. compassing out
  6. compassings
  7. compassion
  8. compassion fatigue
  9. compassion fatigues
  10. compassionable
  11. compassionate

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