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behaving

verbnouncommon in dialogue

Behaviour.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of behavepresent participle and gerund of behave

noun

  1. 1

    Behaviour.

    After that, he watched the semichivalrous behavings of the three English with quiet amusement; he thought Fielding had been incredibly silly and weak, and he was amazed by the younger people's want of proper pride.

    For any such thing can play the role in an individual life which philosophers have thought could, or at least should, be played only by things which were universal, common to us all. It can symbolise the blind impress all our behavings bear.

Forms

plural
behavings
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