Onsetting

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    onset; beginning obsolete

    "Etymological figures are sundry kinds of changings, and outcastings, or onsettings, of breathsounds and clippings, in the forms of words."

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

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attackaaccessadventaggravated assaultaggression

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"Etymological figures are sundry kinds of changings, and outcastings, or onsettings, of breathsounds and clippings, in the forms of words."

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