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preconizing

preconizing is the present participle and gerund of preconize.

Meaning of preconize

Verb

preconize (third-person singular simple present preconizes, present participle preconizing, simple past and past participle preconized)

  1. To proclaim in public; especially (of the Pope) to announce the appointment of a bishop.
    • The song grew louder, with more insistent, magical tones, surging and falling in unearthly modulations, the very speech of incantation; and the drum beat madly, and the pipe shrilled to a scream, summoning all to issue forth, to leave their peaceful hearths; for a strange rite was preconized in...1922, Arthur Machen, The House of Souls

Questions about preconizing

What is preconizing the present participle and gerund of?
Preconizing is the present participle and gerund of preconize.

Words near preconizing in the dictionary

  1. preconize
  2. preconized
  3. preconizer
  4. preconizers
  5. preconizes
  6. preconizing
  7. preconjugated
  8. preconnect
  9. preconnected
  10. preconnecting
  11. preconnection

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