outsetting
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]outsetting
- present participle and gerund of outset
Noun
[edit]outsetting (plural outsettings)
- Start, originally of a journey; outset, beginning. [from 17th c.[1]]
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
- He […] valued himself, that he only wanted Caesar's out-setting, to make a figure among his contemporaries.
- 1922, Francis Lynde, Pirates' Hope, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 32:
- As it appeared, there was to be no loss of time in the outsetting.
References
[edit]- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “outset”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.