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GUIDING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on
Example:
the directional role of science on industrial progress
Synonyms:
directing; directional; directive; guiding
Classified under:
Similar:
leading (going or proceeding or going in advance; showing the way)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Exerting control or influence
Example:
a guiding principle
Classified under:
Similar:
leading (going or proceeding or going in advance; showing the way)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb guide
Context examples:
These activities involve facilitating service delivery on behalf of the client, communicating with health and human service providers, promoting assertive client communication, and guiding the client toward use of appropriate community resources.
(Case management nurse, NCI Thesaurus)
Two russet-clad varlets, with loud halloo and cracking whips, walked thigh-deep amid the swarm, guiding, controlling, and urging.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At this time and place, she become all on fire with zeal; some new guiding power be in her manifested, for she point to a road and say:—This is the way.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The evening was spent chiefly in talking over Hertfordshire news, and telling again what had already been written; and when it closed, Elizabeth, in the solitude of her chamber, had to meditate upon Charlotte's degree of contentment, to understand her address in guiding, and composure in bearing with, her husband, and to acknowledge that it was all done very well.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It was a holy hour for mother and daughter, and their eyes were wet as they talked on in the twilight, Ruth all white innocence and frankness, her mother sympathetic, receptive, yet calmly explaining and guiding.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
To me it was as if I had been wafted to a fairy world, and my uncle might have been some benevolent enchanter in a high-collared, long-tailed coat, who was guiding me about in it.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets the dictates of conscience.'
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
There is something of a guiding purpose manifest throughout, which is comforting.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Susan, she found, looked up to her and wished for her good opinion; and new as anything like an office of authority was to Fanny, new as it was to imagine herself capable of guiding or informing any one, she did resolve to give occasional hints to Susan, and endeavour to exercise for her advantage the juster notions of what was due to everybody, and what would be wisest for herself, which her own more favoured education had fixed in her.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I did not weep, but I knelt down and with a full heart thanked my guiding spirit for conducting me in safety to the place where I hoped, notwithstanding my adversary’s gibe, to meet and grapple with him.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
