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diverting en · ADJ
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(dated) Amusing, distracting.
I was every day furniſhing the Court with ſome ridiculous Story; and Glumdalclitch, although ſhe loved me to Exceſs, yet was arch enough to inform the Queen, whenever I committed any Folly that ſhe thought would be diverting to her Majeſty.
1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Several Adventures that Happened to the Author. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page 247:
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divertingly · undiverting · divertingness
diverting en · NOUN
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A diversion or turning aside.
the narrowings, widenings, divertings, or stoppings of the stream of breath
1854, William Barnes, A Philological Grammar, page 9:
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diverting en · VERB
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of divert