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am steeling

  • present progressive of steel (1st person singular).

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“It’s not that I am steeling myself against disappointment. It is that it’s not based on anything real, and, you know, you can’t live in your own fantasies of what might happen.”

From Seattle Times Nov. 17, 2014

I am steeling myself with Plato and Platonics; so now farewell to love and womankind.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas