recoiling
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]recoiling
- present participle and gerund of recoil
Noun
[edit]recoiling (plural recoilings)
- The act of something that recoils.
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
- And as long as these inward Rejolts and Recoilings of the Mind continue (which they will certainly do for a considerable Part of a Man's Life) the Sinner will find his Accounts of Pleasure very poor and short […]