creeping
English
Etymology
From Middle English crepynge; equivalent to creep + -ing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɹiːpɪŋ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -iːpɪŋ
Noun
creeping (plural creepings)
- The act of something that creeps.
- 1824, Timothy Dwight, Theology, Explained and Defended in a Series of Sermons
- It is indubitably certain, therefore, that he is able to attend, and actually attends, to all things at the same moment; to the motions of a seed, or a leaf, or an atom; to the creepings of a worm, the flutterings of an insect, and the journeys of a mite […]
- 1824, Timothy Dwight, Theology, Explained and Defended in a Series of Sermons
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