having
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈhævɪŋ/
- present participle of have#English|have
having (plural havings)
- The act of possessing; ownership.
- 2002, Ronald Jager, The Development of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy
- He thus came to think of perceiving as a complex of 'havings,' not a complex of 'havings' and 'doings.'
- 2002, Ronald Jager, The Development of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy
- Something owned; possession; goods; estate.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene 4,
- Out of my lean and low ability
- I’ll lend you something: my having is not much;
- I’ll make division of my present with you:
- Hold, there’s half my coffer.
- 1875, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Queen Mary, London: Henry S. King, Act II, Scene 2, p. 80,
- Your havings wasted by the scythe and spade—
- Your rights and charters hobnail’d into slush—
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene 4,
- (obsolete) A person's behaviour.
- (obsolete, Scotland, mostly, in the plural) Good manners.
having
- (obsolete) Grasping; greedy.
- 1875, Christ and the people, sermons (page 282)
- The new man in Humanity, which is the communication of the Son of Man Who is the Interceder, is an asking man, although it is not a greedy and a having man.
- 1875, Christ and the people, sermons (page 282)
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