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▪ I. consummating, vbl. n.|ˈkɒnsəmeɪtɪŋ, -sjʊ-|
[f. consummate v. + -ing1.]
The action of completing or perfecting; consummation.
1555J. Harpesfeld in Bonner Homilies 43 To the perfytynge, or consummating of the holy ons. a1618Raleigh Mahomet (1637) 131 The time..for the consummating of the intended marriage. 1660Trial Regic. 46 That which was the Consummating of all, that Bloody Warrant.
▪ II. ˈconsummating, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That consummates; completing, perfecting.
1616Chapman Musæus 395 When the consummating hours had crown'd The down-right nuptials. 1701Beverley Apoc. Quest. 12 The Consummating Judgments of its Utter, and Final Destruction. 1823Southey Hist. Penins. War I. 182 He committed his last and consummating folly, by appealing to the very tyrant, etc. 1876Mozley Univ. Serm. ii. 41 The consummating act of national apostasy. |