Meanings
nounlawyering (countable and uncountable, plural lawyerings)
plural lawyerings
- countableuncountableThe practicing of law as a profession; being a lawyer.
In that country it is that a hireling scribe (a chance child of fortune and of war), urged on by his paltry lawyerings, put his vile name to this paltry proclamation, putting down freemen.
1888, Daniel O'Connell, William John Fitz-Patrick, Correspondence of Daniel O'Connell, the Liberator, page 224
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of lawyer
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