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intelligencing

intelligencing adjective: giving information; talebearing.

Adjective

intelligencing (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Giving information; talebearing.
    • that sad intelligencing tyrant1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC
    • Hence with her, out o' door: A most intelligencing bawd!c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

Noun

intelligencing (countable and uncountable, plural intelligencings)

  1. The act of trading in information; serving as a go-between, diplomat, organizer, or spy.
    • Intelligencing for personal profit, albeit through the service of the crown, could call the agent's allegiance into question.2010, R. Adams, R. Cox, Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture, page 78
    • Playing off of Allen's account of intelligencing, I propose that another name for the kind of community that Marlowe stages is false brotherhood, especially since Barabas, Abigail, Ithamore, Bella Mira, and Pilia-Borza all end up engaging in the kinds of actions that Allen associates with...2012, Graham Hammill, The Mosaic Constitution
  2. The exercise of intelligence; The manifestation of sentience or intellect.
    • As a necessary consequence of this pure spirituality and absolute independence of the angelic nature of all material aid or instrument for its operation, St. Thomas argues that the intellect of the angel, as regards whatever comes within the range of its natural knowledge, is always in the act of...1884 April, J.B. de Concilio, “The Plurality of Worlds”, in The American Catholic Quarterly Review, volume 9, page 204
    • To begin with, I shall address three of the different forms of sentience that can currently be found in the world: animal, human, and thing. Then, I will argue that these forms of intelligencing are beginning to have more in common as a result of the efflorescences of a suite of 'understated'...2007, Nigel Thrift, Non-Representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect, page 154

Forms of intelligencing

pluralintelligencings

Origin of intelligencing

From intelligence + -ing.

Questions about intelligencing

What does intelligencing mean?
Intelligencing means giving information; talebearing.
What part of speech is intelligencing?
Intelligencing can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near intelligencing in the dictionary

  1. intelligencelike
  2. intelligencer
  3. intelligencers
  4. intelligences
  5. intelligencies
  6. intelligencing
  7. intelligencings
  8. intelligency
  9. intelligensia
  10. intelligent
  11. intelligent agent

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