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Altering vs Alteration - What's the difference?

altering | alteration |

As nouns the difference between altering and alteration

is that altering is alteration while alteration is alteration.

As a verb altering

is .

altering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • alteration
  • * George Fox
    • And stand steadfast in the unchangeable life and seed of God, which was before changings and alterings were; and which will remain when they all are gone.

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    alteration

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of altering or making different.
  • * 1594 , , Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity ,
    • …alteration , though it be from worse to better, hath in it inconveniences…
  • The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition.
  • * 1892 , ,
    • …and I saw by the alteration in your face that a train of thought had been started.
    (Webster 1913)

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