indite
verb (used with object)
to compose or write, as a poem.
is inditing
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present progressiveof indite (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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My heart is inditing of a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made unto the 2 My tongue is the pen: of a ready writer.
From The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy by Episcopal Church in Scotland
"My heart is inditing of a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made unto the king."
From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Miss Seward is inditing her elegant descriptions for the use of her admiring circle.
From Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
The maid of honor is inditing an epistle to one who must fall.
From Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories by Robert Herrick
No child—no grown man with any sense of poetry—can deny his ear to the Forty-fifth Psalm; the one that begins 'My heart is inditing a good matter,' and plunges into a hymn of royal nuptials.
From On The Art of Reading by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
