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prelating

prelating is the present participle and gerund of prelate.

Meaning of prelate

Verb

prelate (third-person singular simple present prelates, present participle prelating, simple past and past participle prelated)

  1. (intransitive) (obsolete) To act as a prelate.
    • 18 January 1549, Hugh Latimer, Sermon of the Plough
      Right prelating is busy labouring, and not lording.

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Questions about prelating

What is prelating the present participle and gerund of?
Prelating is the present participle and gerund of prelate.

Words near prelating in the dictionary

  1. prelatial
  2. prelatic
  3. prelatical
  4. prelatically
  5. prelatick
  6. prelating
  7. prelation
  8. prelations
  9. prelatise
  10. prelatised
  11. prelatises

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prelating (page history and authors); prelate (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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