supporting

comparative more supporting · superlative most supporting

1. That supports.

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of support

plural supportings

1. That which supports something else; a support.

   […] the pumps could he installed at once on the completion of the pump-house supportings.

   1913, Proceedings of the Lake Superior Mining Institute

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   But supposing that heaven had a Lord, then all included in its overspreadings and supportings, throughout the myriad of states, and within the four seas, would invariably be under the government of Heaven's Lord […]

   1847, Walter Henry Medhurst, A Dissertation on the Theology of the Chinese, page 252