touching

[Touch·ing]

Arousing affect

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Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale.

Noun
the act of putting two things together with no space between them; "at his touch the room filled with lights"

Noun
the event of something coming in contact with the body; "he longed for the touch of her hand"; "the cooling touch of the night air"

Adjective S.
arousing affect; "the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene"; "poignant grief cannot endure forever"; "his gratitude was simple and touching"


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Touch

a.
Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale.

prep.
Concerning; with respect to.

n.
The sense or act of feeling; touch.


Touching

Touch"ing , a. Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale. -- Touch"ing*ly , adv.

Touching

Touch"ing, prep. Concerning; with respect to.
Now, as touching things offered unto idols.

Touching

Touch"ing, n. The sense or act of feeling; touch.

Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale.

Concerning; with respect to.

The sense or act of feeling; touch.

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Usage Examples

The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life.

What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.

In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel.

I've always been hopeful about Scotland's prospects. And I now believe more than ever that Scotland is within touching distance of achieving independence and equality.

The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?

China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

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Other Usage Examples

Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.

I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do.

I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I don't believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself.

Well, there's nothing more touching than putting a smile on a kid's face when you can.

There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.

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