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discoursing

discoursing noun: conversation. Also the present participle and gerund of discourse.

Noun

discoursing (plural discoursings)

  1. conversation
    • “I have no appetite; I can't eat!” — “My dear fellow,” answered the Doctor in mildest tone, “it isn't of the slightest consequence;” — and continued his philosophical discoursings with us!1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Happy”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker)
    • Mrs Gamp and Mr Sweedlepipe had many deep discoursings on the subject of this mysterious customer[…]1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC

Also used as

discoursing is also the present participle and gerund of discourse.

Forms of discoursing

pluraldiscoursings

Questions about discoursing

What does discoursing mean?
Discoursing means conversation.
What part of speech is discoursing?
Discoursing is a noun.
What is the plural of discoursing?
The plural of discoursing is discoursings.

Words near discoursing in the dictionary

  1. discourser
  2. discoursers
  3. discourses
  4. discoursest
  5. discourseth
  6. discoursing
  7. discoursings
  8. discoursive
  9. discoursively
  10. discoursiveness
  11. discourteous

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