Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of chapter
nounchaptering (plural chapterings)
plural chapterings
- The arrangement of a work into chapters.
1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, letter to W. E. Henley, quoted in 2017, The Complete Works Like enough, when it is finished I shall discard all chapterings; for the thing is written straight through. It must, unhappily, be rewritten — too well written not to be.
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