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hovering

noun B2
  1. The act of one who hovers. (countable, uncountable)

Plural hoverings

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An Eagle, hovering near, heard her lamentation and demanded what reward she would give him if he would take her aloft and float her in the air.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 9 · B2
When the two were established at a well-appointed table, with a promising waiter hovering in attendance, Chandler began to experience the real joy that his regular outing always brought to him.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 30 · C1
It seemed as though my soul were already hovering over my body, my eyes, which I tried to open, closed against my will, and what will appear impossible above all to you, sir, I saw, with my eyes shut, in the spot where you are now standing, issuing from that corner where there is a door leading into Madame Villefort’s dressing-room—I saw, I tell you, silently enter, a white figure.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 746 · C1
“An extreme nervous excitement and a strangely agitated sleep; she fancied this morning in her sleep that her soul was hovering above her body, which she at the same time watched.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 750 · C1

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