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pryings

pryings is the plural of prying.

Meaning of prying

Noun

prying (plural pryings)

  1. The act of one who pries.
    • That it is wrongful to do a thing in that it is grubby in the way in which pryings for the sake of prurient interest are grubby, does not by itself make doing the thing an infringement of a claim.1992, Judith Jarvis Thomson, The Realm of Rights, page 280

Questions about pryings

What is pryings the plural of?
Pryings is the plural of prying.

Words near pryings in the dictionary

  1. pryest
  2. pryeth
  3. prying
  4. pryingly
  5. pryingness
  6. pryings
  7. Prylisne
  8. Pryluky
  9. prymnesin
  10. prymnesins
  11. prymnesiophyte

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