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Webster 1828 Edition

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Uniting closely; joining in purpose; confederating; uniting by chimical affinity.

combining

combining ‎(plural combinings)

The act by which things are combined or brought together.
- Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
  these little combinings together, of friends, for objects in themselves extremely laudable, but which the law terms conspiracies