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▪ I. accompanying, vbl. n.|əˈkʌmpənɪɪŋ| [f. accompany + -ing1.] The action of being a companion, associating, going or acting with; or of giving anything an accompaniment. spec. The act of playing an additional part on an instrument in support of a singer. (Now mostly gerundial.)
1581Sidney Def. Poesie (1622) 515 Heraclitus..is to be praised for compassionate accompanying iust causes of lamentations. 1649Drummond of Hawthornden Hist. James III Wks. 1711, 56 Acts were made that no convention of friends should be suffered for the accompanying & defence of criminal persons. Mod. May I have the pleasure of accompanying you? ▪ II. accompanying, ppl. a.|əˈkʌmpənɪɪŋ| [f. accompany + -ing2.] Acting as a companion; going along with; attending; attached, appended.
1850McCosh Div. Govt. (1874) iii. iii. 428 The moral good or the evil lies not in the affection itself, but in its accompanying desire or volition. 1880Haughton Phys. Geogr. iii. 134 The Gulf Stream is shewn in the accompanying map. |