rhythming

From rhythm +‎ -ing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɪðəmɪŋ/, /ˈɹɪðmɪŋ/

rhythming (not comparable)

1. Writing rhythm or verse.^[1]
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):

     the rhythming monk

rhythming (plural rhythmings)

1. A rhythmic pattern; cadence.
   • 1847, Edwin F. Roberts, Athanase; a Dramatic Poem, page 74:

     Let's have more rhythmings from thy harps, my Ariel!

   • 1997, Charles Taylor, Philosophical Arguments, page 172:

     Now in cases like log sawing and ballroom dancing, it is crucial to their rhythming that they be shared .

   • 2019, Joan Ramon Resina, Christoph Wulf, Repetition, Recurrence, Returns: How Cultural Renewal Works, page xv:

     We can see from the example of Japanese etoku a different mode of learning and approaching the world, the significance of which is seldom perceived in everyday life, how important rhythming, sensitization and beat, mimetic assimilation, and practical skill are for human development.

   • 2021, Shaka McGlotten, Dragging: Or, in the Drag of a Queer Life:

     I'd interrupted the rhythmings I'd created for myself, patterns that were lifelines after I'd gone straight edge years earlier.

rhythming

1. present participle and gerund of rhythm