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discounseling

discounseling is the present participle and gerund of discounsel.

Meaning of discounsel

Verb

discounsel (third-person singular simple present discounsels, present participle (US) discounseling or (UK) discounselling, simple past and past participle (US) discounseled or (UK) discounselled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To advise (someone) against doing something.
    • But him the Palmer from that vanity, / With temperate aduice discounselled […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about discounseling

What is discounseling the present participle and gerund of?
Discounseling is the present participle and gerund of discounsel.

Words near discounseling in the dictionary

  1. discotomies
  2. discotomy
  3. discouered
  4. discounsel
  5. discounseled
  6. discounseling
  7. discounselled
  8. discounselling
  9. discounsels
  10. discount
  11. discount card

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