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paramouring

paramouring is the present participle and gerund of paramour.

Meaning of paramour

Verb

paramour (third-person singular simple present paramours, present participle paramouring, simple past and past participle paramoured)

  1. (dated, intransitive) To have an illicit or secret affair with a person, especially someone who is not one's spouse.
    • [W]ine loued I deeply, dice deerely, and in vvoman out paromord the Turke, […][c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […]...

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Questions about paramouring

What is paramouring the present participle and gerund of?
Paramouring is the present participle and gerund of paramour.

Words near paramouring in the dictionary

  1. paramountness
  2. paramounts
  3. paramountship
  4. paramour
  5. paramoured
  6. paramouring
  7. paramours
  8. parampara
  9. paramparas
  10. paramphistome
  11. paramphistomes

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