English

Adjective

supporting ‎(comparative more supporting, superlative most supporting)

1. That supports.

Derived terms

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Verb

supporting

1. present participle of support

Noun

supporting ‎(plural supportings)

1. That which supports something else; a support.
   • 1847, Walter Henry Medhurst, A Dissertation on the Theology of the Chinese (page 252)

     But supposing that heaven had a Lord, then all included in its overspreadings and supportings, throughout the myriad of states, and within the four seas, would invariably be under the government of Heaven's Lord […]

   • 1913, Proceedings of the Lake Superior Mining Institute

     […] the pumps could he installed at once on the completion of the pump-house supportings.