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Definition of Purposing
1. purpose [v] - See also: purpose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purposing
Literary usage of Purposing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contributions to Education by Columbia University Teachers College (1922)
"It was said above that the main point of attack in all good teaching is the
pupil's purposing and that the teacher should get purposes somehow or other. ..."
2. A Comparison of Tendencies in Secondary Education in England and the United by James William Norman (1922)
"To work •with and not for the child, to assist and not carry, to keep his activity,
that is, his purposing, planning, executing and judging- at a high pitch ..."
3. A Digest of the International Law of the United States: Taken from Documents by Francis Wharton (1887)
""If the emigrants (persons purposing to settle iu the Mosquito Kingdom) should
be formed into companies, commanded by officers, and furnished with arms, ..."
4. The Old and New Testament connected in the history of the Jews and by Humphrey Prideaux (1836)
"Eumenes, king of Pergamus,1 making his advantage of these divisions, marched
against Antiochus and the Gauls with all his forces, purposing to suppress them ..."
5. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs, from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"contrary to the peace concluded between the two nations, as 'tis thought not
purposing to keep the peace; and therefore he hath committed the Morocco ..."
6. Note-book Kept by Thomas Lechford, Esq., Lawyer, in Boston, Massachusetts by Thomas Lechford, James Hammond Trumbull (1885)
"... and this offence being done late upon a last day of the weeke a little before
night this deponent went presently purposing to make it knowne to goodman ..."
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