Definition of Commemorating

1. Adjective. Intended as a commemoration. "A commemorative plaque"

Exact synonyms: Commemorative
Partainyms: Commemoration, Commemoration
Derivative terms: Commemorate, Commemorate, Commemorate

Definition of Commemorating

1. Verb. (present participle of commemorate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Commemorating

1. commemorate [v] - See also: commemorate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Commemorating

commaunds
comme ci comme ça
comme il faut
commeasurable
commeasure
commeasured
commeasures
commeasuring
commedia dell'arte
commelina
commemorabilia
commemorable
commemorate
commemorated
commemorates
commemorating (current term)
commemoration
commemorations
commemorative
commemorative sign
commemoratively
commemoratives
commemorator
commemorators
commemoratory
commemorial
commence
commenced
commencement
commencement ceremony

Literary usage of Commemorating

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Confessions of S. Augustine: Book I-X. by Augustine (1886)
"She discontinues her habit of commemorating martyrs, on account of the prohibition of Ambrose. WHEN then my mother had once, as she was wont in Africa, ..."

2. Communicant's Companion by Matthew Henry (1828)
"It was appointed to be a commemorating ordinance, and a. confessing ordinance, ... I. The ordinance of the Lord's Supper is a commemorating ordinance. ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"... less than fifty whose meaning can be explained are now known to exist. Belt, commemorating Ibe formation of tho League of the " Five Nations" ..."

4. Sidelights on Germany: Studies of German Life and Character During the Great by Michael A. Morrison (1918)
"In the Deutsche Tageszeitung we hear the following proposal: commemorating THE DEAD If all these silly monuments were taken down from their ridiculous ..."

5. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1910)
"His remains were later removed to Petersburg, with due ceremonies, and on July 4, 1909, a monument commemorating the founding of the Grand Army of the ..."

6. Belgium and Holland, Including the Grand-duchy of Luxembourg: Handbook for by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1905)
"E, 2) is a handsome Fountain adorned with sculptures, commemorating the tercentenary of the establishment of Dutch independence (1572; seep. xxxviii)in 1872 ..."

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