chancing
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]chancing
- present participle and gerund of chance
Noun
[edit]chancing (plural chancings)
- Something that happens by chance.
- 1832, Robert Mudie, The Botanic Annual, page viii:
- Although some of the subjects treated of are deciduous, all of them last for seasons; and such is the intention of the book, whatever may be its chance in a world of chancings.
- 1922, Thomas Hardy, A Procession of Dead Days:
- I did not know what better or worse / Chancings might bless or curse […]
- (Philippines) sexual advance with suggestive body contact