outsetting
English
Verb
outsetting
- present participle and gerund of outset
Noun
outsetting (plural outsettings)
- Start, originally of a journey; outset, beginning. [from 17th c.[1]]
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, pages 67–68:
- He [...] valued himſelf, that he only wanted Cæſar's out-ſetting, to make a figure among his contemporaries.
- 1922, Francis Lynde, Pirates' Hope, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 32:
- As it appeared, there was to be no loss of time in the outsetting.
References
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “outset”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.