The present participle of capitalise; the act of writing with capital letters or converting assets into investment capital.
From capitalise plus the gerund suffix -ing. This form became standardized with the verb capitalise in 19th-century usage.
Authors and editors are constantly capitalising words differently across documents, which is why style guides like the Chicago Manual of Style exist—they're trying to make our written chaos predictable!
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