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harbinging

harbinging is the present participle and gerund of harbinge.

Meaning of harbinge

Verb (1)

harbinge (third-person singular simple present harbinges, present participle harbinging, simple past and past participle harbinged)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To lodge, stay.

Verb (2)

harbinge (third-person singular simple present harbinges, present participle harbinging, simple past and past participle harbinged)

  1. (neologism, rare) To be a harbinger; to presage.

Questions about harbinging

What is harbinging the present participle and gerund of?
Harbinging is the present participle and gerund of harbinge.

Words near harbinging in the dictionary

  1. harbingered
  2. harbingering
  3. harbingers
  4. harbingership
  5. harbinges
  6. harbinging
  7. Harbinite
  8. Harbinites
  9. Harbinson
  10. harbis
  11. Harbison

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Adapted from Wiktionary: harbinging (page history and authors); harbinge (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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