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Delving vs Rummaging - What's the difference?

delving | rummaging |

As verbs the difference between delving and rummaging

is that delving is while rummaging is .

As nouns the difference between delving and rummaging

is that delving is the act of one who delves while rummaging is the act of one who rummages.

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.

    rummaging

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who rummages.
  • * 1905 , Henry James, The Golden Bowl (page 400)
    • There was always the impossibility, of course, of finding him anything, the least bit "good," that he wouldn't already, long ago, in his rummagings , have seen himself