intelligencings

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
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

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