Present participle of congress: the act of meeting together in a formal assembly or congress.
From congress + -ing (present participle). Though 'congress' rarely functions as a verb in modern English, the gerund form appears in historical and formal contexts.
The fact that 'congressing' exists but sounds awkward shows how English nouns can technically form verb forms that nobody actually uses—it's grammatically possible but practically dead.
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