intelligencing
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of trading in information; serving as a go-between, diplomat, organizer, or spy.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The exercise of intelligence; The manifestation of sentience or intellect.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "that sad intelligencing tyrant"
- "Hence with her, out o' door: A most intelligencing bawd!"
- "Intelligencing for personal profit, albeit through the service of the crown, could call the agent's allegiance into question."
- "Playing off of Allen's account of intelligencing, I propose that another name for the kind of community that Marlowe stages is false brotherhood, especially since Barabas, Abigail, Ithamore, Bella Mira, and Pilia-Borza all end up engaging in the kinds of actions that Allen associates with intelligencing."
- "Unfortunately for Vindice, the object of his pandering is to be his own sister, Castiza (1.2.128), but the very fact that he is willing to play this game suggests a patent connection between morally dubious intelligencing and the business of acting."
- "For that reason Hartlib presents a faxcinating site of experiment: he straddles the international, intellectual 'intelligencing' characteristic of the republic of letters, and the more pragmatic intelligence gathering central to the formation of the English state. A large body of correspondence representative of this kind of political intelligencing within the Commonwealth and Protectorate are readily available within the English seventeenth-century StatePapers."
Etymology
From intelligence + -ing.