glancing

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɑːnsɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɑːnsɪŋ

Verb

glancing

1. present participle and gerund of glance

Adjective

glancing (comparative more glancing, superlative most glancing)

1. Making superficial, obtuse contact with something.

   His fist caught a glancing blow to my jaw.

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 324–325:

     She looked with a grudging eye on this waste of life and beauty—there was none for him; and the sight of the coffin, with its deep black pall borne slowly along the glancing path, was a contrast of unutterable misery. It was a relief to change the cheerful meadow for the dark umbrage of the forest which they now entered.

Translations

making superficial contact

• Italian: radente (it)

Noun

glancing (plural glancings)

1. A sideways look; a glance.
   • 1856, David Brown, Christ's second coming: will it be pre-millennial?:

     No doubt, sometimes there are comprehensive glancings at, and interminglings of different future eras of prophecy.

Anagrams

• clanging