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present participle and gerund of cling examples
plural clingings
The act of one who clings. quotations examples
The mind […] ascribes characters to things. It can become attached in the process, the attachment taking such forms as erroneous thoughts and clingings, and the Buddha-nature thereby becomes defiled in the way that the sun may be obscured by clouds or a mirror by dust.
2013, Lawrence C. Becker, Charlotte B. Becker, Encyclopedia of Ethics, page 217