Definition of "clutching" []

• Present participle of clutch. (verb)

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• "All this Argument From Tone pearl-clutching is a joke."
• "Lincoln may not have emerged from his log cabin clutching the Emancipation Proclamation, but what is remarkable about the man is the tenacity with which he held certain core principles and ideas throughout his life."
• "It had been an easy enough business, only that in clutching the window frame, the jagged end of the splinter she had run into her hand caught and tore her flesh."