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Definition of "canting" [cant•ing]

  • Present participle of cant. (verb)

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Use "canting" in a sentence
  • "Evident since the fourteenth century, a submerged tradition of poems written in canting speech has developed with increasing resonance, sometimes in conjunction with the dominant literary tradition."
  • "The re-canting is irrelevant, nobody believed him from day one which was long before Bushie invaded Iraq."
  • "If he prayed, or gave them good counsel, they would banter it, and call it canting; if he kept silence from good, when the wicked were before him, they would say that he had forgotten his religion now that he was sick."