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- noun Plural form of
acting .
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Examples
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But if you extend it unto such kind of actings as our nature is not capable of, at least in this world, it is the open fruit of a deceived fancy, and makes all that is tendered from the same hand to be justly suspected.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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And when no special "actings" were on hand, and my beautiful shell might have been supposed to be nothing but a shell, the pleasures of my fertile imagination were by no means at an end.
A Christmas Posy Mrs. Molesworth 1880
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Giving any power to "actings" is at best ludicrous.
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Too many "actings" and not enough real experienced leadership, no organization can be run like this and certainly not an educational one.
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Too many "actings" and not enough real experienced leadership, no organization can be run like this and certainly not an educational one.
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Giving any power to "actings" is at best ludicrous.
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With actings and deputies reluctant to move on anything controversial, the leaves the services playing serious catch-up should Obama decide to substantially remake the 2011 budget.
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You said exactly why I no longer connect with 'Hollywood' movies; the actings all gone.
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If we will observe the actings of our own minds, we shall find that we reason best and clearest, when we only observe the connexion of the proof, without reducing our thoughts to any rule of syllogism.
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And such are perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing, willing, and all the different actings of our own minds; — which we being conscious of, and observing in ourselves, do from these receive into our understandings as distinct ideas as we do from bodies affecting our senses.
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