railing
/ˈɹeɪlɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.26 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
That rails; engaged in or given to violent complaining.
adj
Filled with invective and violent complaints
noun
A fence or barrier consisting of one or more horizontal rails and vertical supports.
Example Sentences
- "Why does that railing man go with us?"
- "The daring of the railing reviler should be checked with moderation, i.e. as a duty of charity, and not through lust for one's own honour."
- "A clamorous, debating, railing woman feels the need to have the last word."
- "On Anger's self-awareness of the originality of writing as a railing woman, see McManus, "Eve's Dowry," p. 198."
- "Petrus de Pilichdorf (in the year 1395, as he himself gives the date, cap 30,) writes a book of confutation of the several pretended errors of the Waldenses of this time in thirty-six chapters, but has nothing of baptism; though he descends to speak of many lesser matters, and aggravates all with very railing words, yet he finds nothing to accuse them of, but such things as the protestants now hold, except one or two, as the 'unlawfulness of 'all oaths,' &c."
- "Such was the case of the 'very railing speeches against the justices' by Thomas Holman, vintner, of Terling, Essex, when he was presented in 1608 'for a common drunkard and for keeping ill rule in his house'."