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increeping

increeping is the present participle and gerund of increep.

Meaning of increep

Verb

increep (third-person singular simple present increeps, present participle increeping, simple past and past participle incrept)

  1. (intransitive, poetic) To creep in; to make a furtive entrance.
    • First, order gone, and doores not being kept, / By baptisme heaps of prophane do rush. / With them, at length, a ministry incrept, / That with the horn God's ordinance did push.1849, Henoch Clapham, quoted in Jane Eliza Leeson, Chapters on Deacons

Questions about increeping

What is increeping the present participle and gerund of?
Increeping is the present participle and gerund of increep.

Words near increeping in the dictionary

  1. incredulosity
  2. incredulous
  3. incredulously
  4. incredulousness
  5. increep
  6. increeping
  7. increeps
  8. incremable
  9. incremate
  10. incremated
  11. incremates

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