Definition of "quailing" []

• Present participle of quail. (verb)

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• "The position should command, if nothing else, a certain quailing respect."
• "Denny quailed – though he said he did not – but then he doesn't know what quailing is, and if Denny did not quail then Oswald does not know what quailing is either."
• "It was the pulpit and the manuscript, the spoken and the written word quailing before the printed word—something of the stupefaction of the sparrow at beholding the Heavenly Host spread their six million wings."