Meanings
plural rhythmings
- A rhythmic pattern; cadence.
Let's have more rhythmings from thy harps, my Ariel!
1847, Edwin F. Roberts, Athanase; a Dramatic Poem, page 743 more examples
Now in cases like log sawing and ballroom dancing, it is crucial to their rhythming that they be shared .
1997, Charles Taylor, Philosophical Arguments, page 172We can see from the example of Japanese etoku a different mode of learning and approaching the world, the significance of which is seldom perceived in everyday life, how important rhythming, sensitization and beat, mimetic assimilation, and practical skill are for human development.
2019, Joan Ramon Resina, Christoph Wulf, Repetition, Recurrence, Returns: How Cultural Renewal Works, page xvI'd interrupted the rhythmings I'd created for myself, patterns that were lifelines after I'd gone straight edge years earlier.
2021, Shaka McGlotten, Dragging: Or, in the Drag of a Queer Life
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of rhythm
Origin
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