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English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhævɪŋ/
- Hyphenation: ha‧ving
Verb
having
- present participle and gerund of have
Noun
having (countable and uncountable, 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.'
- Something owned; possession; goods; estate.
c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :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, page 80:Your havings wasted by the scythe and spade—
Your rights and charters hobnail’d into slush—
- (obsolete) A person's behaviour.
- (obsolete, Scotland, chiefly in the plural) Good manners.
Adjective
having (comparative more having, superlative most 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.