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Balking
BALK'ING
,ppr.
Definition 2024
balking
balking
English
Verb
balking
- present participle of balk
Noun
balking (plural balkings)
- A frustration or disappointment; a check.
- 1928, Daniel Bell Leary, Modern Psychology, Normal and Abnormal: A Behaviorism of Personality
- This supernatural world is the world of fulfilled desire, the world where the balkings, the trials and tribulations, the sorrows and the sins are no more, and where life is as the personality would have it […]
- 1928, Daniel Bell Leary, Modern Psychology, Normal and Abnormal: A Behaviorism of Personality