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- verb Present participle of
companion .
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Examples
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For $775, grief counselors can attend a three-day seminar to learn more about the difference between treating and companioning.
The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011
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For $775, grief counselors can attend a three-day seminar to learn more about the difference between treating and companioning.
The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011
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When I grew up, I laid hands on the whole and ate of the best and drank freely and wore rich clothes and lived lavishly, companioning and consorting with youths of my own age, and considering that this course of life would continue for ever and ken no change.
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When I grew up, I laid hands on the whole and ate of the best and drank freely and wore rich clothes and lived lavishly, companioning and consorting with youths of my own age, and considering that this course of life would continue forever and ken no change.
Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981
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He knew that he wouldn't have resented this latest concentration of fire lizards, obviously companioning holders prosperous enough to own fast pacers, if the earlier caravan hadn't been just as well favored with the creatures.
Dragon Drums McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- 1979
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He knew that he wouldn't have resented this latest concentration of fire lizards, obviously companioning holders prosperous enough to own fast pacers, if the earlier caravan hadn't been just as well favored with the creatures.
Dragon Drums McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- 1979
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After all, ours are best, and a headache is often preferable to companioning with the dumb.
Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America G. Whitfield Ray
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Rehoboth Church -- parchments and papers whose inscriptions were fast fading, whose textures were fast rotting -- companioning in their decay the decay of the creeds they sought to preserve and proclaim.
Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather
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Timothy were companioning the adventure of this trip to Lewisburg, but he found no tongue to reply.
The Heart of Arethusa Francis Barton Fox
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Almost too busy to write, my dears, what with cooking and catering and maiding and companioning.
Jane Journeys On Ruth Comfort Mitchell 1918
mollusque commented on the word companioning
The dark pools and the sunny shallows beckon one on; the wedge of sky between the trees on either bank, the speaking, companioning noise of the water, the amazing importance of what one is doing, and the constant sense of life and beauty make a strange transformation of the quick hours.
--Sarah Orne Jewett, 1899, A Dunnet Shepherdess
January 28, 2010