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Definition of Fielding
1. Noun. (baseball) handling the ball while playing in the field.
Category relationships: Baseball, Baseball Game
Derivative terms: Field, Field
2. Noun. English novelist and dramatist (1707-1754).
Definition of Fielding
1. n. The act of playing as a fielder.
Definition of Fielding
1. Proper noun. (surname) ¹
2. Noun. The action of the verb '''field'''. ¹
3. Verb. (present participle of field) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fielding
1. field [v] - See also: field
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fielding
Literary usage of Fielding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"FE fielding, ANTONY VANDYKE COPLEY (1787-1855), water-colour painter, was the
second and most distinguished son of Nathan Theodore fielding [qv] He was born ..."
2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1913)
"journals brought on fielding the reproach of being a "pensioned scribbler," and
may have helped to obtain his commission as justice of the peace for ..."
3. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1903)
"fielding now for a while worked hard at his profession, and we are told that he
... fielding now recommenced for a while his career as dramatist with much ..."
4. Representative English Plays: From the Middle Ages to the End of the by John Strong Perry Tatlock, Robert Grant Martin (1916)
"At the age of thirty fielding abandoned 'the stage for the law, and a few years
later began the series of great novels which mainly support his fame; ..."
5. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"It is true that fielding, like every leader of a new literary dynasty, ...
But fielding — as he again tells us — means deliberately to describe "human ..."
6. The Age of Johnson (1748-1798) by Thomas Seccombe (1902)
"1 Richardson was the Roundhead, fielding the Cavalier, of our present epoch—that
... Walpole was mortally bored by Richardson; fielding, on the other hand, ..."
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