onsetting

English

Verb

onsetting

1. present participle and gerund of onset

Noun

onsetting (plural onsettings)

1. (obsolete) onset; beginning
   • 1854, William Barnes, A Philological Grammar:

     Etymological figures are sundry kinds of changings, and outcastings, or onsettings, of breathsounds and clippings, in the forms of words.

Anagrams

• ostenting