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Definition of Answering
1. Adjective. Replying. "An answering smile"
Definition of Answering
1. Verb. (present participle of answer) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Answering
1. answer [v] - See also: answer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Answering
Literary usage of Answering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"CONVERSION directed by Will of real estate into personal, not to all intents,
but for the purpose only of answering legacies and annuities : subject to that ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: From by Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Scott Eldon (1827)
"... quaere. not think upon reflection, that, if the Commissioners commit the
bankrupt for not answering to then* satisfaction, sitting in bankruptcy I could ..."
3. Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot (1895)
"The garden was fenced with stones on two sides, but in front there was an open
fence, through which the flowers shone with answering gladness, ..."
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