English Explanatory Dictionary

smiting

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. present participle and gerund of smite
noun
  1. The act of one who smites.

Word forms

smiting smitings

Etymology

From Middle English smytinge, smitende, smytende, smitand, from Old English smītende, from Proto-Germanic *smītandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *smītaną (“to throw, hurl, bespatter”), equivalent to smite + -ing.

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