chambering

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noun

Sexual indulgence; wantonness.

RareFirst used 16th c.Scrabble 20
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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of chamber
nounchambering (plural chamberings)

plural chamberings

  1. historicalSexual indulgence; wantonness.First known use 16th c.

    Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

    1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 13:13
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    Eyes, opening from the darkness of desire, eyes that dimmed the breaking east. What was their languid grace but the softness of chambering?

    1916, James Joyce, chapter V, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC
  2. The arrangement of the chambers in a gun or other firearm.First known use 19th c.
  3. biologyThe fact of being organized or divided into chambers.First known use 19th c.

Origin

From chamber + -ing.

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APA

chambering. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chambering

MLA

“chambering.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chambering. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “chambering,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chambering.

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