weening
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English wening (“supposition, opinion, presumption, doubt”), from Old English wēning (“supposition, doubt, doubtful thought”), equivalent to ween + -ing.
Noun edit
weening (countable and uncountable, plural weenings)
- Presumption, imagination, supposition.
- 1860, R.R.B., The Upland Hall, page 54:
- […] and if I get a scanty living in the way I do, it is because the credulity of the people require such practices to satisfy their weenings — they wish to know all sorts of things, […]
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Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
weening
- present participle and gerund of ween