Present participle of discrepate; disagreeing, clashing, or showing inconsistency.
From 'discrepate' with the present participle suffix '-ing,' which marks ongoing action. The '-ing' form comes from Old English and originally meant 'the action of' some verb.
The '-ing' form is incredibly powerful—it lets us turn any action into a noun ('running,' 'thinking,' 'discrepating'), which is why gerunds are so useful for describing abstract processes in formal writing.
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