itemizing

English

Verb

itemizing

1. present participle and gerund of itemize

Noun

itemizing (plural itemizings)

1. The process by which something is itemized.
   • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:

     Now alive as he was to all these searching argumentative itemizings of the minutest known facts any way bearing upon the subject; and yet, at the same time, persuaded, strong as death, that in spite of them, Isabel was indeed his sister; how could Pierre […] fail to acknowledge the existence of that all-controlling and all-permeating wonderfulness […] denominated The Finger of God?