practising
Speech parts
1. practising - Noun
2. practising - Verb
Meaning
practising
present participle of practise
practising (plural practisings)
The act of one who practises.
Synonyms
Phrases with the word
Examples
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him cold, or rather, would flatter him. Immoralism has become a commonplace, and anybody and everybody boasts of practising it.
People keep framing this as a religious freedom issue, but there's a difference between practising your religion - which everyone has the right to do - and rubbing your religion in people's faces as a triumphalist political statement, which is what's happening here.
The writer is either a practising recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one or both. Usually both.
In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.
Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.