pondering

English

Verb

pondering

  1. present participle and gerund of ponder

Noun

pondering (plural ponderings)

  1. An act of rumination or cogitation.
    • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
      Now all his ponderings, however excursive, wheeled round Isabel as their center; and back to her they came again from every excursion; and again derived some new, small germs for wonderment.
    • 2009 February 18, Jim Coyle, “Spoofing of premier a bad omen”, in Toronto Star‎[1]:
      Alas, it looked yesterday, when the Legislature returned to business, as if Premier Dalton McGuinty's peculiar maunderings and ponderings of the past several weeks risk making him just that.

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