preferring

English

Alternative forms

• præferring (archaic)

Verb

preferring

1. present participle and gerund of prefer
2. present participle and gerund of preferre

Noun

preferring (plural preferrings)

1. A preference; the choice of something preferred.
   • 1984, Steven M. Cahn, Patricia Kitcher, George Sher, Reason at Work: Introductory Readings in Philosophy, page 497:

     He gives our preferrings the bad name of the machinery of motives, but they are just what we feel in ourselves when we decide.