pertaining

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of pertain

plural pertainings

1. Something that pertains; an appurtenance.

   When, I say, these things are duly considered as pertainings of a woman's lot, we might almost justify them in a riot against natural sexhood itself, if there were any thing to be gained by it.

   1869, Horace Bushnell, Women's suffrage: the reform against nature, page 90