Definition of "answering" []

• Present participle of answer. (verb)

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• ""That is what you call answering, avowing that there is nothing to answer.""
• ""More liberties," Janet indignantly declared, and after the first visitation or two she resolutely set her face against what she called the answering of impertinent questions."
• "Something must have passed between the two which satisfied the writer that the bishop acknowledged his own sovereign under some title answering to Prester John."