dismaying

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English[edit]

Verb[edit]

dismaying

  1. present participle and gerund of dismay

Noun[edit]

dismaying (plural dismayings)

  1. (archaic) A state of dismay.
    • quoted in 1842, John Mason Good, John Mason Neale, An Historical Outline of the Book of Psalms (page 186)
      My dismayings utterly consume me: / They encompass me like water: / They press wholly upon me every day.
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