Referencing

noun, verb

noun, verb ·4 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The making of a reference.

    "And what conversation becomes then is a sustained strip or tract of referencings, each referencing tending to bear, but often deviously, some retrospectively perceivable connection to the immediately preceding one."

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

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citationcharactermentionacknowledgmentacknowledgmentaddress

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"It wasn't referencing that, but if it had been, such references are extremely common in Western culture."

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