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Definition of Companioning
1. companion [v] - See also: companion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Companioning
Literary usage of Companioning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs by American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Southern California Academy of Sciences, Peabody Academy of Science, New York Academy of Sciences (1809)
"companioning ; used in the following passage of an American poem ... Upon which
one of our own critics makes this remark : " companioning is , ••' • a word ..."
2. A Vocabulary; Or, Collection of Words and Phrases: Or, Collection of Words by John Pickering (1816)
"See remarks on the verb To Arrive, companioning. ... Upon which one of our own
writers makes this remark : " companioning is a word invented without taste, ..."
3. Ireland: Its Scenery, Character, &c. by Samuel Carter Hall (1841)
"... that seemed to attend without companioning the lonely girl ; there was no
sympathy between them, she did not call to him, but he followed her rather as ..."
4. The Contemporary Review (1878)
"He is an Italian cousin of that sole voyager on still Saint Mary's Lake, sole
save for his companioning shadow. There the green hills are mirrored in the ..."