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Definition of quoting :
of Quote
Synonyms:
offering (part of speech: verb)
dealing, granting, approaching, offering, presenting, imparting, citing, giving, submitting, attempting, endowing, inviting, rendering, biding, issuing, tendering, bestowing, advancing, extending
repeating (part of speech: verb)
instancing, duplicating, reciting, recapitulating, echoing, copying, reiterating, publishing, repeating, replicating, reproducing, stating, excerpting, naming, iterating, announcing, recurring
Usage examples:
- I have been roaring over and quoting some of the passages of your letter, in which my wife takes as much delight as I do. - "The Letters of William James, Vol. II", William James.
- " If you know a better 'ole," he would say, quoting Bairnsfather, " go to it!" - "The Victory At Sea", William Sowden Sims Burton J. Hendrick.
- I shall not hesitate to begin by quoting at length a luminous passage from Grimm's great work. - "Folklore as an Historical Science", George Laurence Gomme.