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dauntings

dauntings is the plural of daunting.

Meaning of daunting

Noun

daunting (plural dauntings)

  1. The act of discouraging or intimidating; discouragement, intimidation.
    • Face to face with the true mountains, / I stood silently and still; / Drawing strength for fancy's dauntings, / From the air about the hill, / And from Nature's open mercies, and most debonaire goodwill.1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “The Lost Bower”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 114
  2. The act of defeating, overcoming, or overwhelming.
    • Then came in two by two, other Troopes, whoſe onſets, and ouer-throwes, honours, and diſgraces, darings, and dauntings, merit an ample Chronicle, rather than an Abſtract; [...]1613, Thomas Dekker; Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, compiler and editor, “A Strange Horse-race”, in The Non-dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker. In Five Volumes. […] (The Huth Library), volume III...
    Synonyms:
    taming, vanquishing

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Questions about dauntings

What is dauntings the plural of?
Dauntings is the plural of daunting.

Words near dauntings in the dictionary

  1. daunter
  2. daunters
  3. daunting
  4. dauntingly
  5. dauntingness
  6. dauntings
  7. dauntless
  8. dauntlessly
  9. dauntlessness
  10. Daunton
  11. daunts

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