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Webster 1828 Edition

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Conversing together; bestowing.

conferring

conferring ‎(plural conferrings)

The act of one who confers.
- 1921, Asia: Journal of the American Asiatic Association
  His critics ask him if he expects to prevent the conferees in the Conference from talking to one another in the Metropolitan Club and from then coming to the Conference's open sessions merely to register the results of their secret conferrings.