eliciting

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Verb

eliciting

1. present participle and gerund of elicit

Noun

eliciting (plural elicitings)

1. An elicitation.
   • 1992, Mary Beth Rose, Essays on Epistemological Transformations and Theater History, page 23:

     The centrality of these elicitings to Prospero's type of power can only be assumed in the case of Caliban, but is manifest in his use of them to shape the minds of the nobles and confuse the conspiracy of the clowns.