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Referring vs Pertaining - What's the difference?

referring | pertaining |

As verbs the difference between referring and pertaining

is that referring is present participle of lang=en while pertaining is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun pertaining is

something that pertains; an appurtenance.

referring

English

Verb

(head)

    • pertaining

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that pertains; an appurtenance.
  • * 1869 , Horace Bushnell, Women's suffrage: the reform against nature (page 90)
    • When, I say, these things are duly considered as pertainings of a woman's lot, we might almost justify them in a riot against natural sexhood itself, if there were any thing to be gained by it.

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