Fancying
noun, verb
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Something fancied or imagined.
"These sad fancyings – chimeras, doubtless, of a sick and silly brain – led on the other and more special thoughts, concerning the eccentricities of Bartleby."
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of fancy form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"I came home to my fortification, not feeling, as we say, the ground I went on, but terrified to the last degree, looking behind me at every two or three steps, mistaking every bush and tree, and fancying every stump at a distance to be a man."
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