intershow

English

Etymology

From inter- + show.

Verb

intershow (third-person singular simple present intershows, present participle intershowing, simple past and past participle intershowed)

  1. (rare) To show mutually; to show among or between two or more people.
    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, [], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount [], OCLC 946730821:
      it was to all beholders a singular pleasure to observe the love, the joy, and blandishments, each endeavored to enter-shew [transl. entrefaisoyent] one another.
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
      Master Lenehan at this made return that he had heard of those nefarious deeds and how, as he heard hereof counted, he had besmirched the lily virtue of a confiding female which was corruption of minors and they all intershowed it too, waxing merry and toasting to his fathership.

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