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English
Etymology
Blend of text + messaging, derived from text messaging
Verb
texting
- present participle and gerund of text
Noun
texting (countable and uncountable, plural textings)
- The use of a mobile phone to send text messages.
- The words set to a piece of music.
1915, Oscar George Sonneck, The Musical Quarterly, volume 52, page 198:More typical (but still not numerous) are the textings supplied for Alleluias, or just as frequently for melismas occurring at the end of the second or third verse of Offertories.
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