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enhearsing

enhearsing is the present participle and gerund of enhearse.

Meaning of enhearse

Verb

enhearse (third-person singular simple present enhearses, present participle enhearsing, simple past and past participle enhearsed)

  1. (transitive) To place into, or as if into, a hearse or coffin.
    • Doubtless he would have made a noble knight;
      See, where he lies inhearsed in the arms
      Of the most bloody nurser of his harms!1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Questions about enhearsing

What is enhearsing the present participle and gerund of?
Enhearsing is the present participle and gerund of enhearse.

Words near enhearsing in the dictionary

  1. enhaunces
  2. Enhe
  3. enhearse
  4. enhearsed
  5. enhearses
  6. enhearsing
  7. enhearten
  8. enheartened
  9. enheartening
  10. enheartens
  11. enhedge

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