Meaning of acting | Babel Free

Definitions

1. performance (a live show or concert)
2. Act.
3. An action or deed.
   archaic, countable
4. acting (the occupation of an actor)
5. Something done by a party—so called to avoid confusion with the legal senses of deed and action.
   countable
6. action (something done to accomplish a purpose)
7. Pretending.
   uncountable
8. proceeding, lawsuit
9. The occupation of an actor.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] he does so much magnifie Nature and her Actings in all this material World, as he gives just cause of suspicion that he hath made her a kind of joynt Deess with God in the Affairs thereof;”

“[…] I desire this Account may pass with them, rather for a Direction to themselves to act by, than a History of my actings, seeing it may not be of one farthing value to them to note what became of me.”

“Boyle’s theory explains the whole range of God’s actings in the world, those things that injure man as well as those which advantage him.”

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