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dustlings

dustlings is the plural of dustling.

Meaning of dustling

Noun

dustling (plural dustlings)

  1. A small grain or particle; mote; speck.
    • Now Gods Almightiness is within the least punctum physicum, or dustling of body, ('twas made and is kept in being by Almightiness). But Gods Almightiness being God himself, himself is there altogether.2012, Jasper Reid, The Metaphysics of Henry More
  2. One formed from the dust; human being.
    • Without culture, without a garden, how could this human dustling survive in the wildness of even a very good created world?2010, W. David O. Taylor, For the Beauty of the Church

Questions about dustlings

What is dustlings the plural of?
Dustlings is the plural of dustling.

Words near dustlings in the dictionary

  1. dustjackets
  2. dustless
  3. dustlessness
  4. dustlike
  5. dustling
  6. dustlings
  7. dustman
  8. Dustmans
  9. dustmat
  10. dustmats
  11. dustmen

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