Meanings
- Finishing; closing; final.
The concluding chapters of the book summarise the main points.
- obsoleteConclusive; convincing; decisive.
But if such Persons chafe and are angry, and so go from you, 'tis to me a very concluding Argument that they are not as yet very fit to be Members of the Community of Christ's Church.
1719, Thomas Davye, Joseph Stokes, The Baptism of Adult Believers Only, Asserted and Vindicated
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of conclude
plural concludings
- A conclusion.
He who obeys not the good Shepherd of the soul and heart has an untruthful mind; a mind filled with fallacies; a mind of wrong resolvings and concludings.
1965, Ann Ree Colton, The soul and the ethic, page 167
Synonyms & antonyms
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