Meanings
nounfretting (plural frettings)
plural frettings
- An irritation or worrying; a worry.
[I]t is highly likely that some preachers may have called on millennial frettings for their purposes. The theologian Abbo of Fleury recalled a premillennial sermon in his youth which did precisely this.
1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 184 - A gnawing or eating away.
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of fret
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