countermanding

English

Verb

countermanding

1. present participle and gerund of countermand

Noun

countermanding (plural countermandings)

1. The act of something being countermanded.
   • 1852, Cyrus Augustus Bartol, The Hand of God in the Great Man, page 23:

     Let us bless him as we see acts of friends or foes to him and his children, proclamations and repudiations, orders and countermandings, motions of loyalty and rebellion, all providentially arranging themselves as so many onward steps […]