procuring

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PROCU'RING, participle present tense Getting; gaining; obtaining. 1. Causing to come or to be done. 2. adjective That causes to come; bringing on. Sin is the procuring cause of all our woes.
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