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outwarding

outwarding is the present participle and gerund of outward.

Meaning of outward

Verb

outward (third-person singular simple present outwards, present participle outwarding, simple past and past participle outwarded)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To ward off; to keep out.
    • Ne any armour could his dint out-ward; / But wheresoever it did light, it throughly shard.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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Questions about outwarding

What is outwarding the present participle and gerund of?
Outwarding is the present participle and gerund of outward.

Words near outwarding in the dictionary

  1. outwarbling
  2. outward
  3. outward-looking
  4. outward-lookingness
  5. outwarded
  6. outwarding
  7. outwardlooking
  8. outwardlookingness
  9. outwardly
  10. outwardmost
  11. outwardness

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