committing

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/kəˈmɪtɪŋ/

noun

The act by which something is committed.

Less commonScrabble 17

Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of commit
nouncommitting (plural committings)

plural committings

  1. The act by which something is committed.

    This and more I would haue done, but what is past cannot bee recalled, and it is too late to put old omittings to new committings.

    1624, John Taylor, The Scourge of Basenesse
    1 more example

    Any pedagogue knows that a criticism too often repeated destroys its own purpose. These ever more numerous sallies of our social critics into the old world, these punctual committings to print of all the painful things they learn there […]

    1930, The Commonweal, volume 12, page 120
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