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tourneying

tourneying is the present participle and gerund of tourney.

Meaning of tourney

Verb

tourney (third-person singular simple present tourneys, present participle tourneying, simple past and past participle tourneyed)

  1. (archaic) To take part in a tournament.
    • Here indeed, perhaps, by rule of antagonisms, may be the place to mention that, after King Richard’s return, there was a liberty of tourneying given to the fighting men of England […]1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. XV, Practical — Devotional”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The...

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Questions about tourneying

What is tourneying the present participle and gerund of?
Tourneying is the present participle and gerund of tourney.

Words near tourneying in the dictionary

  1. tournettes
  2. tourney
  3. tourneyed
  4. tourneyer
  5. tourneyers
  6. tourneying
  7. tourneys
  8. tournies
  9. tourniquet
  10. tourniqueted
  11. tourniqueting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tourneying (page history and authors); tourney (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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