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Delving vs Deepening - What's the difference?

delving | deepening |

As verbs the difference between delving and deepening

is that delving is while deepening is .

As nouns the difference between delving and deepening

is that delving is the act of one who delves while deepening is the act of becoming deeper.

delving

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who delves.
  • * 1968 , E. Dora Earthy, Valenge Women
    • Doubtless, as has happened to others, her motives were sometimes misunderstood by those who may have looked with suspicion upon these delvings into pagan practice and belief, but they have been fully justified.

    deepening

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of becoming deeper.
  • * 1972 , H. H. Lamb, Climate: Present, Past and Future (volume 1, page 408)
    • Further examples of the same effect could be seen in sudden deepenings of depressions over the warmer than normal eastern Atlantic in the 1968-9 winter: the consequence was interruptions of the cold weather prevailing in Britain