Definition of "convoking" []

• Present participle of convoke. (verb)

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• "In particular, the pope seems to have had a horror of the idea of convoking a general council, foreseeing, no doubt, grave difficulties with France in any such attempt."
• "The pope did not relish the idea of convoking a national council which might unnecessarily protract the quarrel and endanger the papal authority."
• "It declares its basic character when it represents itself as listening to the act of 'convoking', calling together."