downsitting

English

Etymology

down +‎ sitting

Noun

downsitting (plural downsittings)

1. The act of sitting down; repose; a resting.
   • Bible, Psalms cxxxix. 2

     Thou knowest my downsitting and my uprising.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “downsitting”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• sitting down