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concelebrating

concelebrating is the present participle and gerund of concelebrate.

Meaning of concelebrate

Verb

concelebrate (third-person singular simple present concelebrates, present participle concelebrating, simple past and past participle concelebrated)

  1. To celebrate along with others
    • Here I could breake out into a boundleſſe race of oratory, in ſhrill trumpetting and concelebrating the royall magnificence of her gouernement, that for ſtate and ſtrict ciuill ordering, ſcant admitteth any riuals: but I feare it would be a theame diſpleaſant to the graue modeſty of the diſcreet...1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 6
  2. To take part in the Eucharist as a joint celebrant.
    • We had been told before the service that we were invited to move up to the altar if we wanted to concelebrate.2009 August 29, Kelvin Holdsworth, “Ordination in Edinburgh”, in Thurible.net
    1. (broadly) To celebrate the Eucharist along with the bishop who ordained them.

Questions about concelebrating

What is concelebrating the present participle and gerund of?
Concelebrating is the present participle and gerund of concelebrate.

Words near concelebrating in the dictionary

  1. concelebrant
  2. concelebrants
  3. concelebrate
  4. concelebrated
  5. concelebrates
  6. concelebrating
  7. concelebration
  8. concelebrations
  9. concelho
  10. concelhos
  11. Concelman

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Adapted from Wiktionary: concelebrating (page history and authors); concelebrate (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.

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