downsetting

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noun

A setting down.

Scrabble 16
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Meanings

noundownsetting (plural downsettings)

plural downsettings

  1. A setting down.

    If we ascend up into heaven, and lanch our thoughts amid the stars, God is there: He made them, and gave them their laws, and ordered their downsettings and their uprisings.

    1840, Julius Charles Hare (Archdeacon of Lewes), The Victory of Faith, and Other Sermons (page 371)
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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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