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  • verb Present participle of chorus.

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Examples

  • The two birds set up a tremendous singing and chorussing when

    The Newcomes 2006

  • He leapt to his feet and laughed, blithe as the larks now chorussing outside the window.

    Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • Mardonius went from his tent, all his eunuchs bowing their foreheads to the earth and chorussing, “Victory to our Lord, to Persia, and to the King.”

    A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903

  • It is Spring, it is chorussing Spring: 'tis the birthday of earth, and for you!

    Brother Copas Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • Troy, and even for the middle-aged and married; who would company thither by water, to wash their faces in the dew, and eat cream, and see the sun rise, and afterwards return chorussing, their boats draped with green boughs.

    The Mayor of Troy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • I was awakened at six o'clock the next morning by the men chorussing at the windlass, and the quick clank of the pawls that showed how thoroughly Jack was putting his heart into his work, and how quickly he was walking the ship up to her anchor.

    The Castaways Harry Collingwood 1886

  • As I did so there was a loud cry or command, the chorussing at the windlass abruptly ceased, and in the silence that temporarily ensued I caught the muffled sound of the steam blowing-off from the tug's waste-pipe, mingled with the faint sound of hailing from somewhere ahead, answered in the stentorian tones of Mr Murgatroyd's voice.

    The Castaways Harry Collingwood 1886

  • Luxuriously she applied to his public life for witness that he had governed wisely as well as affectionately so long; and he might therefore, with the chorussing of the world of public men, expect a woman blindfold to follow his lead.

    One of Our Conquerors — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

  • For she had not only suffered; she had done wrongly: and when that was acknowledged, by the light of her sufferings the wrong-doing appeared gigantic, chorussing eulogies of the man she had thought her lover: and who was her lover once, before the crime against him.

    Diana of the Crossways — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868

  • Luxuriously she applied to his public life for witness that he had governed wisely as well as affectionately so long; and he might therefore, with the chorussing of the world of public men, expect a woman blindfold to follow his lead.

    One of Our Conquerors — Complete George Meredith 1868

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