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spying
spying
English
Verb
spying
- present participle of spy
Noun
spying (countable and uncountable, plural spyings)
- espionage
- 1980, Amélie Rorty, Explaining Emotions (page 472)
- There are two ways in which the obsessive character of jealousy tends to exert itself: one is in the need to know, the endless tests and investigations and spyings that are so characteristic of jealousy.
- 1980, Amélie Rorty, Explaining Emotions (page 472)
Translations
espionage — see espionage