[f. as prec.] Composing or producing sonnets.
1809. Byron, Bards & Rev., 925. Let sonneteering Bowles his strains refine.
1824. Macaulay, Misc. Writ. (1860), I. 67. Blue-stocking ladies and sonneteering gentlemen.
1870. Lowell, Among My Books, Ser. I. (1873), 368. In the very height of that divine sonneteering love of Laura.