motioning

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noun

movement

“F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned By gesture she was pretending and by words and by the scarcely perceptible motionings of her eyelids […]”

UncommonScrabble 12

Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of motion
nounmotioning (plural motionings)

plural motionings

  1. movement

    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned By gesture she was pretending and by words and by the scarcely perceptible motionings of her eyelids […]

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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