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harbingering

harbingering is the present participle and gerund of harbinger.

Meaning of harbinger

Verb

harbinger (third-person singular simple present harbingers, present participle harbingering, simple past and past participle harbingered)

  1. (transitive) To announce or precede; to be a harbinger of.
    • It was harbingered also by the terrible comet of January, which appeared in a cadent and obscure house, denoting sickness and death; […]1841, William Harrison Ainsworth, chapter VIII, in Old Saint Paul's, published 1903, page 94
    Synonyms:
    herald

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Questions about harbingering

What is harbingering the present participle and gerund of?
Harbingering is the present participle and gerund of harbinger.

Words near harbingering in the dictionary

  1. harbinge
  2. harbinged
  3. harbinger
  4. harbinger-of-spring
  5. harbingered
  6. harbingering
  7. harbingers
  8. harbingership
  9. harbinges
  10. harbinging
  11. Harbinite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: harbingering (page history and authors); harbinger (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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