acting

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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