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tabernacling

tabernacling is the present participle and gerund of tabernacle.

Meaning of tabernacle

Verb

tabernacle (third-person singular simple present tabernacles, present participle tabernacling, simple past and past participle tabernacled)

  1. (intransitive) To dwell; to abide for a time.
  2. (figuratively, intransitive) To instill or reside within, as a quality or virtue,
    • What mortal man cannot determine, that is determined by the Olympian father through his child, in whom are tabernacled loveliness, augustness, strength, and graciousness[…]1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VIII. The Orestea: III. Eumenides”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 235

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Questions about tabernacling

What is tabernacling the present participle and gerund of?
Tabernacling is the present participle and gerund of tabernacle.

Words near tabernacling in the dictionary

  1. tabernacle work
  2. tabernacled
  3. tabernacler
  4. tabernaclers
  5. tabernacles
  6. tabernacling
  7. tabernacular
  8. tabernaemontanine
  9. tabernanthalog
  10. tabernanthine
  11. tabernariae

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tabernacling (page history and authors); tabernacle (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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