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telling of

telling of is the present participle and gerund of tell of.

Meaning of tell of

Verb

tell of (third-person singular simple present tells of, present participle telling of, simple past and past participle told of)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To inform (someone) about (something).
    • He tells of his adventures abroad.

Questions about telling of

What is telling of the present participle and gerund of?
Telling of is the present participle and gerund of tell of.

Words near telling of in the dictionary

  1. telling fortunes
  2. telling it like it is
  3. telling it to the hand
  4. telling its own tale
  5. telling noses
  6. telling of
  7. telling off
  8. telling on
  9. telling someone where to get off
  10. telling someone where to shove it
  11. telling tales

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Adapted from Wiktionary: telling of (page history and authors); tell of (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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