recoiling
English
editVerb
editrecoiling
- present participle and gerund of recoil
Noun
editrecoiling (plural recoilings)
- The act of something that recoils.
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
- And as long as these inward Rejolts and Recoilings of the Mind continue (which they will certainly do for a considerable Part of a Man's Life) the Sinner will find his Accounts of Pleasure very poor and short […]