soldiering

[ sohl-jer-ing ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

First recorded in 1690–1700; soldier + -ing ¹

Reprinted with permission from WWII: A Chronicle of Soldiering by James Jones, published by the University of Chicago Press.

But the confusion points to more serious problems with how our society thinks about both sex and soldiering.

But there are two other candidates as well who are soldiering along without any national attention.

As a teenager he developed a passion for soldiering, or, rather, the idea of it.

As a result, some allege that in Iraq he created a culture of aggressive soldiering—one that may have gone too far.

We shall then find it to have been one of the doubtful advantages that were gained by long years of Low Country soldiering.

A Crown-Prince of Prussia, ought he not to learn soldiering, of all things; by every opportunity?

He is more and more intimate with Leopold, and loves good soldiering beyond all things.

He is nephew of George I.'s lean mistress; who also was a Schulenburg originally, and conspicuous not for soldiering.

It would be cruel to Adele for you to marry her before the war is over, or until you at any rate have done with soldiering.

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