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unsettlings

unsettlings is the plural of unsettling.

Meaning of unsettling

Noun

unsettling (plural unsettlings)

  1. The weakening of some previously established system or norm.
    • A farmer in Hampshire was sorely distressed by the unsettling of his barn. However straightly over-night he laid his sheaves on the threshing-floor for the application of the morning's flail, when morning came, all was topsy-turvy, higgledy-piggledy, though the door remained locked, and there was...1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 305

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What is unsettlings the plural of?
Unsettlings is the plural of unsettling.

Words near unsettlings in the dictionary

  1. unsettlers
  2. unsettles
  3. unsettling
  4. unsettlingly
  5. unsettlingness
  6. unsettlings
  7. unseverable
  8. unsevere
  9. unsevered
  10. unseverely
  11. unseverity

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