Meanings
adjectiveapologizing (comparative more apologizing, superlative most apologizing)
comparative more apologizing · superlative most apologizing
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of apologize
nounapologizing (plural apologizings)
plural apologizings
- The act of making an apology.
There were appeals and apologizings and beseechings then, but they were on the other side and he did not respond; something was frozen away inside that never unthawed in the heat of their renewed association.
2014, Allen Drury, Advise & Consent
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