Definition of Purposing

1. Verb. (present participle of purpose) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Purposing

1. purpose [v] - See also: purpose

Lexicographical Neighbors of Purposing

purpose statement
purposed
purposedly
purposeful
purposeful availment
purposefully
purposefulness
purposeless
purposelessly
purposelessness
purposely
purposer
purposers
purposes
purposeth
purposing (current term)
purposive
purposive approach
purposively
purposiveness
purposivenesses
purpre
purpresture
purprestures
purprise
purprises
purpura
purpura hemorrhagica
purpuras
purpurate

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 ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Purposing on Dictionary.com!Search for Purposing on Thesaurus.com!Search for Purposing on Google!Search for Purposing on Wikipedia!

Search