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countable and uncountable, plural lawyerings
The practicing of law as a profession; being a lawyer. quotations examples
In that country it is that a hireling scribe (a chance child of fortune and of war), urged on by his paltry lawyerings, put his vile name to this paltry proclamation, putting down freemen.
1888, Daniel O'Connell, William John Fitz-Patrick, Correspondence of Daniel O'Connell, the Liberator, page 224
present participle and gerund of lawyer examples