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justing

justing is the present participle and gerund of just.

justing is the obsolete form of jousting.

Meaning of just

Verb

just (third-person singular simple present justs, present participle justing, simple past and past participle justed)

  1. To joust, fight a tournament.
    • He iusts with her vnknowne whom he lou’d best, [...].1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Third Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold]...

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Meaning of jousting

Noun

jousting (countable and uncountable, plural joustings)

  1. A medieval European sport in which mounted knights charged at each other bearing lances.
  2. (figuratively) Any activity in which two people spar with each other verbally.

Forms of justing

pluraljustings

Questions about justing

What is justing the present participle and gerund of?
Justing is the present participle and gerund of just.

Words near justing in the dictionary

  1. justifyings
  2. Justin
  3. Justina
  4. Justine
  5. JustinFlation
  6. justing
  7. justings
  8. Justinian
  9. Justinianean
  10. Justinianian
  11. Justinianic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: justing (page history and authors); just (page history and authors); jousting (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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