pertaining

English

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /pɚˈteɪnɪŋ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pəˈteɪnɪŋ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪn
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Hyphenation: per‧tain‧ing

Verb

pertaining

  1. present participle and gerund of pertain

Noun

pertaining (plural pertainings)

  1. Something that pertains; an appurtenance.
    • 1869, Horace Bushnell, Women's suffrage: the reform against nature, page 90:
      When, I say, these things are duly considered as pertainings of a woman's lot, we might almost justify them in a riot against natural sexhood itself, if there were any thing to be gained by it.

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