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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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
"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
My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made, touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
From Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century by Joseph Victor von Scheffel
The minister began: "My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer."—Whose heart but mine?
From A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography by Clifford Whittingham Beers
