soldiering

English

Verb

soldiering

  1. present participle of soldier

Noun

soldiering (plural soldierings)

  1. The work of a soldier; military action.
    • John George Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln: A History (volume 1)
      Thus the two comrades came back from their soldierings to their humble homes, from which Lincoln was soon to start on the way marked out for him by Providence, with strides which no comrade, with whatever goodwill, might hope to follow.
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