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Weening

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    Presumption, imagination, supposition. countable, uncountable

    "[…] 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, […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of ween form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

From Middle English wening (“supposition, opinion, presumption, doubt”), from Old English wēning (“supposition, doubt, doubtful thought”), equivalent to ween + -ing.

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