Where does mooting come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

mooting

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.57 in modern English

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present participle and gerund of moot

"In this he had been guided, not by the mootings of lawyers, not by the reveries of pamphlets, not by the conversation of coffee-houses, but by the opinions of minds that were fitter to direct than to co-operate with such minds as his."

From Middle English motinge, moting, from Old English mōtung, equivalent to moot + -ing.

mootings (plural)

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