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Dorcassing

Dorcassing is the present participle and gerund of Dorcas.

Meaning of Dorcas

Verb

Dorcas (third-person singular simple present Dorcasses or Dorcases, present participle Dorcassing or Dorcasing, simple past and past participle Dorcassed or Dorcased)

  1. To do the work of a Dorcas; to make and distribute clothes to the poor.
    • They had been pouring tea and passing wafers when they should have been Dorcassing at their Christmas tasks.1912, Rupert Hughes, Mrs. Budlong's Christmas Presents, page 59

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Questions about Dorcassing

What is Dorcassing the present participle and gerund of?
Dorcassing is the present participle and gerund of Dorcas.

Words near Dorcassing in the dictionary

  1. Dorcas
  2. dorcas gazelle
  3. dorcas gazelles
  4. Dorcassed
  5. Dorcasses
  6. Dorcassing
  7. dorcastries
  8. dorcastry
  9. Dorce
  10. Dorcely
  11. Dorcelys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Dorcassing (page history and authors); Dorcas (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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