pausing

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English[edit]

Verb[edit]

pausing

  1. present participle and gerund of pause

Noun[edit]

pausing (countable and uncountable, plural pausings)

  1. A pause.
    • c. 1650, John Lightfoot, The Temple-Service:
      And thus did the trumpets sound one-and-twenty blasts every day; [] three soundings at the three pausings of the music, []