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kithing

kithing is the present participle and gerund of kithe.

Meaning of kithe

Verb

kithe (third-person singular simple present kithes, present participle kithing, simple past and past participle kithed)

  1. (archaic, obsolete elsewhere) To make known; to reveal.
    • these lines are sent by me, to keep the law and kithe my love to thee.1606, Alexander Craig, The Amorous, London: printed by William White, New Year's Gift to Idea, page 96; republished as The Poetical Works of Alexander Craig of Rose-Craig, 1604–1631; Now First...

Questions about kithing

What is kithing the present participle and gerund of?
Kithing is the present participle and gerund of kithe.

Words near kithing in the dictionary

  1. Kithcarts
  2. kithe
  3. kithed
  4. kithes
  5. kithfolk
  6. kithing
  7. Kithira
  8. kithless
  9. kithlessness
  10. kiths
  11. kithul

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kithing (page history and authors); kithe (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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