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displing

displing is the present participle and gerund of disple.

Meaning of disple

Verb

disple (third-person singular simple present disples, present participle displing, simple past and past participle displed)

  1. (obsolete) To discipline; to subject to discipline or punishment, especially for religious purposes.
    • And bitter Penance with an yron whip, / Was wont him once to disple euery day […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about displing

What is displing the present participle and gerund of?
Displing is the present participle and gerund of disple.

Words near displing in the dictionary

  1. displenishments
  2. disples
  3. displicence
  4. displicencies
  5. displicency
  6. displing
  7. displode
  8. disploded
  9. displodes
  10. disploding
  11. displosion

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