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onsettings

onsettings is the plural of onsetting.

Meaning of onsetting

Noun

onsetting (plural onsettings)

  1. (obsolete) An onset; a beginning.
    • Etymological figures are sundry kinds of changings, and outcastings, or onsettings, of breathsounds and clippings, in the forms of words.1854, William Barnes, A Philological Grammar

Questions about onsettings

What is onsettings the plural of?
Onsettings is the plural of onsetting.

Words near onsettings in the dictionary

  1. onset
  2. onsets
  3. onsetter
  4. onsetters
  5. onsetting
  6. onsettings
  7. onshell
  8. onshore
  9. onshored
  10. onshores
  11. onshoring

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