Definitions
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- n. Plural form of naming.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Most rituals or 'namings' he will fall in with at present, are like to be 'namings' -- which shall be nameless!
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'namings' he will fall in with at present, are like to be
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
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Post office namings will be handled on a less frequent basis.
Congress is voting less this year, but is it actually working less?
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But Republicans rushed this bill to the floor without the promised notice, and, after hours of debate, the presiding officer announced just before the scheduled vote that the House would instead take up: post-office namings.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- In The Darkest Depths of Mordor
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The namings seem to have come about without the shameless process in which our obsolescent City Council so recently participated.
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I too wonder why all new street namings (with the notable exception of Naito Parkway) have to use the entire first, middle and last name of the honoree.
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And as he murmured these love endearments of namings, it seemed to him that in them were the ripplings of running waters, the tinklings of silver wind-bells, and the scents of the oleander and the jasmine.
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I imagine it also lessons controversy over street re-namings.
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Legislators seeking post office namings would do well to have their resolutions taken up during the lame duck session; the House today takes up H.Res. 1644, "expressing support for designation of a 'National Veterans History Project Week.'"
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What this speculation is suggesting is an origin for representative language in the transition between bullying and bitching, in the namings and name-callings.
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