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redescending

redescending is the present participle and gerund of redescend.

Meaning of redescend

Verb

redescend (third-person singular simple present redescends, present participle redescending, simple past and past participle redescended)

  1. (ambitransitive) To descend again (often following an ascent)
    • To thee sweet Spirit I return
      That love wherwith my heart doth burn,
      And these bless’d notions of my brain
      I now breath up to thee again,
      O let them redescend, and still
      My soul with holy raptures fill.1650, James Howell, Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ, London: Humphrey Mosely, Letter 53, “A Hymne to the Blessed Trinity,” p. 67

Questions about redescending

What is redescending the present participle and gerund of?
Redescending is the present participle and gerund of redescend.

Words near redescending in the dictionary

  1. rederiving
  2. Reders
  3. redes
  4. redescend
  5. redescended
  6. redescending
  7. redescends
  8. redescent
  9. redescents
  10. redescribe
  11. redescribed

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