concluding
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kənˈkluːdɪŋ/
Adjective
concluding
- Finishing; closing; final.
- The concluding chapters of the book summarise the main points.
- (obsolete) Conclusive; convincing; decisive.
- 1719, Thomas Davye, Joseph Stokes, The Baptism of Adult Believers Only, Asserted and Vindicated
- But if such Persons chafe and are angry, and so go from you, 'tis to me a very concluding Argument that they are not as yet very fit to be Members of the Community of Christ's Church.
- 1719, Thomas Davye, Joseph Stokes, The Baptism of Adult Believers Only, Asserted and Vindicated
Noun
concluding (plural concludings)
- A conclusion.
- 1965, Ann Ree Colton, The soul and the ethic (page 167)
- He who obeys not the good Shepherd of the soul and heart has an untruthful mind; a mind filled with fallacies; a mind of wrong resolvings and concludings.
- 1965, Ann Ree Colton, The soul and the ethic (page 167)
References
- “concluding” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.
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