preferring
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- præferring (archaic)
Verb edit
preferring
- present participle and gerund of prefer
- present participle and gerund of preferre
Noun edit
preferring (plural preferrings)
- A preference; the choice of something preferred.
- 1984, Steven M. Cahn, Patricia Kitcher, George Sher, Reason at Work: Introductory Readings in Philosophy, page 497:
- He gives our preferrings the bad name of the machinery of motives, but they are just what we feel in ourselves when we decide.