dustling

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noun

A small grain or particle; mote; speck.

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Meanings

noundustling (plural dustlings)

plural dustlings

  1. A small grain or particle; mote; speck.

    Now Gods Almightiness is within the least punctum physicum, or dustling of body, ('twas made and is kept in being by Almightiness). But Gods Almightiness being God himself, himself is there altogether.

    2012, Jasper Reid, The Metaphysics of Henry More
  2. One formed from the dust; human being.

    Without culture, without a garden, how could this human dustling survive in the wildness of even a very good created world?

    2010, W. David O. Taylor, For the Beauty of the Church

Origin

From dust + -ling.

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Cite this entry
APA

dustling. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dustling

MLA

“dustling.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dustling. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dustling,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dustling.

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