onsetting

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English

Verb

onsetting

  1. present participle of onset

Noun

onsetting (plural onsettings)

  1. (obsolete) onset; beginning
    • 1854, William Barnes, A Philological Grammar
      Etymological figures are sundry kinds of changings, and outcastings, or onsettings, of breathsounds and clippings, in the forms of words.