doling

• Rhymes: -əʊlɪŋ

doling

1. present participle and gerund of dole

doling (plural dolings)

1. The act of one who doles.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 246:

     Alas! we talk of their vanity; we forget that, in doling forth the careless commendation, or as careless sneer, we are bestowing but the passing thought of a moment to that which has been the work of an existence.

   • 1869, Catholic World, volume 8, page 712:

     Their charities never have been limited to the necessities of mere subsistence, like the secular dolings out of so-called modern charity.

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