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instating

instating is the present participle and gerund of instate.

Meaning of instate

Verb

instate (third-person singular simple present instates, present participle instating, simple past and past participle instated)

  1. (transitive) To install (someone) in office; to establish.
    • Except that in the rest of society there was sex aplenty, with the hedonism of “the Sixties” almost officially instated as dogma, and the slow, surreptitious growth of this consensus to the then unguessed-at status of “correctness.”2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 175

Questions about instating

What is instating the present participle and gerund of?
Instating is the present participle and gerund of instate.

Words near instating in the dictionary

  1. instatement
  2. instatements
  3. instates
  4. Instathot
  5. Instathots
  6. instating
  7. instaunce
  8. instaunces
  9. instaunt
  10. instauntly
  11. instaurate

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