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perstringing

perstringing is the present participle and gerund of perstringe.

Meaning of perstringe

Verb

perstringe (third-person singular simple present perstringes, present participle perstringing, simple past and past participle perstringed)

  1. (archaic, literary) To censure; criticize.
    • I speak not of such as generally tax vice […] but such as personate, rail, scoff, calumniate, perstringe by name, or in presence offend.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section...

Questions about perstringing

What is perstringing the present participle and gerund of?
Perstringing is the present participle and gerund of perstringe.

Words near perstringing in the dictionary

  1. perstraction
  2. perstractions
  3. perstringe
  4. perstringed
  5. perstringes
  6. perstringing
  7. persuadability
  8. persuadable
  9. persuadableness
  10. persuadables
  11. persuadably

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Adapted from Wiktionary: perstringing (page history and authors); perstringe (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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