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What is the noun for chaperoning?

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chaperone
  1. An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
  2. (biochemistry) A protein that assists the non-covalent folding/unfolding and the assembly/disassembly of other macromolecular structures, but does not occur in these structures when the latter are performing their normal biological functions.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “She had been unable to turn away from Sarah's pleading gaze to act as her chaperone.”
chaperon
chaperonage
  1. The state of being a chaperon.
  2. The protection offered by a chaperon.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Formal rituals of courting, chaperonage, and arranged marriages strictly governed relations between the sexes.”
      “Even the straightforward parodies of classic Hindi musical numbers, in which love usually dances with the chaperonage of a chorus line, lack the comic spark to send them soaring.”
      “My sincere condolences to his parents, whom I never met, but who loved their brilliant, magnificently weird son and made sure he always had chaperonage when he went abroad on his adventures.”
chaperome
  1. (biochemistry) All the chaperones that assist in protein folding in an organism
chaperonin
  1. (biochemistry) Any of a class of chaperone proteins
chaperoneship
  1. State or position of chaperone.
chaperonages
  1. plural of chaperonage
chaperonins
  1. plural of chaperonin
chaperomes
  1. plural of chaperome
chaperones
chaperons
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