recoiling

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Verb

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recoiling

  1. present participle and gerund of recoil

Noun

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recoiling (plural recoilings)

  1. The act of something that recoils.
    • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volumes (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 []

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