drawing back
drawing back is the present participle and gerund of draw back.
Meaning of draw back
Verb
draw back (third-person singular simple present draws back, present participle drawing back, simple past drew back, past participle drawn back)
Noun
drawing back (plural drawing backs)
- The act of drawing back.
- And the men were afraid.—This signifies a drawing back, as appears from the signification of “being afraid,” as here denoting a drawing back, viz., from conjunction with the internal.1863, Emanuel Swedenborg, “Genesis. Chapter the Forty-Third.”, in Arcana Cœlestia. The Heavenly Mysteries Contained in the Holy Scripture, or Word of the Lord, Unfolfed, in an Exposition of Genesis...
- All this shows how the mainline theological tradition has reasserted itself in German political theology, so that there has been a drawing back from the more revolutionary implications of its original insights.1978, Charles Davis, “From orthodoxy to politics”, in Theology and Political Society: The Hulsean Lectures in the University of Cambridge, 1978, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire; […]: Cambridge University...
Forms of drawing back
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Questions about drawing back
- What does drawing back mean?
- Drawing back means the act of drawing back.
- What is drawing back the present participle and gerund of?
- Drawing back is the present participle and gerund of draw back.
- What part of speech is drawing back?
- Drawing back is a noun.
- What is the plural of drawing back?
- The plural of drawing back is drawing backs.
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