doling
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See also: Doling
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -əʊlɪŋ
Verb
[edit]doling
- present participle and gerund of dole
Noun
[edit]doling (plural dolings)
- The act of one who doles.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 246:
- Alas! we talk of their vanity; we forget that, in doling forth the careless commendation, or as careless sneer, we are bestowing but the passing thought of a moment to that which has been the work of an existence.
- 1869, Catholic World, volume 8, page 712:
- Their charities never have been limited to the necessities of mere subsistence, like the secular dolings out of so-called modern charity.