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Definitions
the act of putting two things together with no space between them
Word origin
From Middle English touchynge, equivalent to touch + -ing.
Used in a sentence
“a touching story”
“Now as touching things offered vnto idoles, wee know that wee all haue knowledge.”
“But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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