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farsing

farsing is the present participle and gerund of farse.

Meaning of farse

Verb

farse (third-person singular simple present farses, present participle farsing, simple past and past participle farsed)

  1. (transitive) To insert vernacular paraphrases into (a Latin liturgy).
    • There is also evidence of glossing (or farsing) the texts of the Epistles read in the masses of the Christmas Octave.2010, Frank C. Senn, The People's Work: A Social History of the Liturgy, page 138

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Noun

farsing (countable and uncountable, plural farsings)

  1. The insertion of vernacular paraphrases into a Latin liturgy.

Forms of farsing

pluralfarsings

Questions about farsing

What does farsing mean?
Farsing means the insertion of vernacular paraphrases into a Latin liturgy.
What is farsing the present participle and gerund of?
Farsing is the present participle and gerund of farse.
What part of speech is farsing?
Farsing is a noun.
What is the plural of farsing?
The plural of farsing is farsings.

Words near farsing in the dictionary

  1. farsight
  2. farsighted
  3. farsightedly
  4. farsightedness
  5. farsights
  6. farsing
  7. farsings
  8. Farsistan
  9. Farsley
  10. Farson
  11. Farsons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: farsing (page history and authors); farse (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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