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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Writing; literary composition.

   "the idle pennings of a poetic daydreamer"

2. 2
   An old currency unit, the Swedish penning.
3. 3
   the act of creating written works wordnet

Verb

1. 1
   present participle and gerund of pen form-of, gerund, participle, present

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A surname.

Synonyms

All synonyms

authorshipcheckcompositionconstraintlockuprestraint

Example

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"the idle pennings of a poetic daydreamer"

Related phrases

Penning gaugePenning trap

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