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commanding

adj
/kəˈmændɪŋ/US/kəˈmɑːndɪŋ/UK

Definitions

  1. Tending to give commands, authoritarian.

  2. Impressively dominant

    Impressively dominant; very good and impressive.

    • a commanding structure
    • a man with a commanding presence

  3. Dominating from above, giving a wide view (of a place or position)

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. present participle and gerund of command

    2. The act of giving a command.

      • God could then have dispelled their ignorance by revealing to them that He had issued those commands; the fact of the occurrence of the earlier commandings would be the content of the revelation.

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at commanding. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at commanding. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at commanding

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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