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woulding

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English

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Etymology

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From would +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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woulding (plural wouldings)

  1. (obsolete) An emotion of desire; an inclination; velleity.
    • 1653, Henry Hammond, Paraphrase and Annotations on the New Testament:
      an act of some kind of woulding or appetite, and that is constantly twofold to the same matter; the flesh hath one woulding, and the spirit hath another

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woulding”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.