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Webster 1828 Edition


Answering

'ANSWERING

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ppr.
Replying; corresponding to; fulfilling; solving; succeeding; reverberating; confuting.

Definition 2024


answering

answering

English

Verb

answering

  1. present participle of answer

Noun

answering (plural answerings)

  1. The act of giving an answer.
    • 1923, John Cann Bailey, The Continuity of Letters (page 107)
      An answer that comes out of the whirlwind is, logically, no answer at all: it belongs to a world above that of logical answerings.

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