querying

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of query

1. not comparableQuestioning, or prone to asking questions.

plural queryings

1. The act of making a query.

   God's word suffers nothing from such captious queryings and cavillings as deface the pages of the modern destructive school.

   1864, Melancthon Williams Jacobus, Notes, critical and explanatory, on the book of Genesis, page iii