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Mooting

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The activity of taking part in a moot court.

    "In this he had been guided, not by the mootings of lawyers, not by the reveries of pamphlets, not by the conversation of coffee-houses, but by the opinions of minds that were fitter to direct than to co-operate with such minds as his."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of moot form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English motinge, moting, from Old English mōtung, equivalent to moot + -ing.

Etymology 2

From moot + -ing.

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