ignoring

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔːɹɪŋ

Verb

ignoring

1. present participle and gerund of ignore

Noun

ignoring (plural ignorings)

1. The act by which something is ignored.
   • 1923, William Henry Koebel, All Aboard: A Frivolous Book, page 102:

     Employ two revokes, two trumpings of your partner's best card and two ignorings of a call — all in the same hand!

   • 1999, David Lewis, Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology, volume 2, page 437:

     We ignore various far-fetched possibilities, as hard-headed detectives should. But S does not ignore them. S is by profession a sceptical epistemologist. He never ignores much of anything. If it is our own ignorings that matter, then we are wrong, because S never knew much of anything.

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• groining