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glossings

glossings is the plural of glossing.

Meaning of glossing

Noun

glossing (plural glossings)

  1. The addition of a gloss, or explanatory note.
    • And it was in this university that the doctors began to sharpen their wits in matters of Holy Writ; they rejected the glossings and musings of interpreters and took the biblical writings to hand, preaching and writing thereof.2012, C. Scott Dixon, Contesting the Reformation

Questions about glossings

What is glossings the plural of?
Glossings is the plural of glossing.

Words near glossings in the dictionary

  1. glossina
  2. glossiness
  3. glossinesses
  4. glossing
  5. glossing over
  6. glossings
  7. glossinid
  8. glossinids
  9. glossiphoniid
  10. glossiphoniids
  11. glossism

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