chiding
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]chiding
- present participle and gerund of chide
Noun
[edit]chiding (plural chidings)
- A scolding.
- 1832, The Rural Repository Devoted to Polite Literature, volume 9, page 2:
- The cause I never knew; one would have thought the knowledge of the guilt and misery which followed his former career, and above all the chidings of a wife whom he loved would have deterred him; […]