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present participle and gerund of address examples
usually uncountable, plural addressings
A process of putting a person's name and address on an item of mail examples
(computing) Any of several methods of locating and accessing information within storage examples
(linguistics) A mode, manner, or form of direct speech to an audience. quotations examples
Just as a social inferior should not adopt a domineering structure of words and addressings, so a social superior must manage to inject just the right degree of condescension into his or her locutions
2010, R. S. Perinbanayagam, Discursive acts: language, signs, and selves, page 118