preferring

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preferring

  1. present participle and gerund of prefer
  2. present participle and gerund of preferre

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preferring (plural preferrings)

  1. A preference; the choice of something preferred.
    • 1984, Steven M. Cahn, Patricia Kitcher, George Sher, Reason at Work: Introductory Readings in Philosophy, page 497:
      He gives our preferrings the bad name of the machinery of motives, but they are just what we feel in ourselves when we decide.