present participle of bejel; the process of developing bejel disease (British spelling variant).
British variant of 'bejeling' with doubled 'l', following standard British English consonant-doubling conventions.
These spelling variants—'bejeling' vs 'bejelling'—are fossils of a real disagreement between American and British printers in the 1700s about when to double consonants, and it stuck! Neither pronunciation changes, just the written form.
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