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trying titles

trying titles is the present participle and gerund of try titles.

Meaning of try titles

Verb

try titles (third-person singular simple present tries titles, present participle trying titles, simple past and past participle tried titles)

  1. (dated) To battle.
    • Gen. Greene, having received all the reinforcements he expected, instantly prepared to try titles for victory, with his lordship, at the point of a bayonet.1839, Benjamin Eggleston, The Wars of America (Hazard & Bloomer), page 450
  2. To litigate a claim to property (most often real estate) or a public office.

Questions about trying titles

What is trying titles the present participle and gerund of?
Trying titles is the present participle and gerund of try titles.

Words near trying titles in the dictionary

  1. trying one's hand
  2. trying one's luck
  3. trying one's wings
  4. trying out
  5. trying someone's patience
  6. trying titles
  7. tryingly
  8. tryingness
  9. tryings
  10. tryinna
  11. tryke

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trying titles (page history and authors); try titles (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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