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▪ I. weening, vbl. n. Obs. or arch.|ˈwiːnɪŋ|
[f. ween v. + -ing1. Cf. OHG. anawânunga ‘existimatio’, piwânunga ‘deliberatio’, MHG. wænunge, wenung(e, G. wähnung.]
1. The action of thinking, supposing, expecting, etc. In ME. often = mere opinion, surmise or suspicion (as opposed to certain knowledge).
c900Bæda's Hist. iv. xix. (MS. Ca.) Þæt heo ða wenunge æt nyhstan ðurhteah. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 7423 Þer wenyng þat day þey tynt. 1340Ayenb. 113 Hit is ope substance, þet is, uirtuous and substanciel aboue onderstondingge and wenynge. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xx. 33 Wenynge is no wysdome ne wyse ymagynacioun. 1397Rolls of Parlt. III. 379/2 It was my menyng and my wenyng for to have do the best. c1400Rom. Rose 2601 Hit is but foly and wrong wenyng To aske so outrageous a thyng. c1420Prose Life Alex. 36 Ȝe wende hafe done till vs as ȝour eldirs didde sumtyme till kynge ȝerses, bot ȝour wenyng dessayued ȝow. 1477Norton Ord. Alch. i. in Ashm. (1652) 22 An old Proverbe, In a Bushell of weeninge, Is not found one handfull of Cunninge. 1570Dee Math. Pref. 2 Surmountyng the imperfection of coniecture, weenyng and opinion. 1625Gill Sacr. Philos. i. 96 These upstart weenings are so witlesse, as they are false. a1633G. Herbert Outlandish Prov. 811 Weening is not measure. 1652H. Bell Luther's Colloq. Mensalia 225 A Preacher..should..not build upon a weening,..but must bee sure of the Caus. a1761Law Behmen's Myst. Magn. xl. (1765) 231 It lies not in any Mans own willing, weening, running, or going to will.
†b. Phrases. to be at or in weening: to be in a state of uncertainty or expectation. to (one's) weening: to the best of one's belief. to put in weening: to make (a person) think or believe. Obs.
c1275Passion of our Lord 595 in O.E. Misc. 54 As heo stode and speken and weren at wenynge Of vre louerdes aryste and fele oþer þinge. 1375Barbour Bruce iv. 765 Sen thai ar in sic venyng, Forouten certane vitting. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xlvi. (Anastace) 184 As he wend he had done til his wenyng Inuch. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. cviii. (1869) 57 Vn yrened j took it thee, for to my weenynge thou shuldest bere it the bettere. c1440Partonope 8588 Ye haue chose some new thinge, And wolde put me in wenyng That it were for good Partonope. 1481Caxton Reynard xvii. (Arb.) 42 Nay I shal brynge you out of wenyng and shewe it you by good wytnes.
†2. Arrogant opinion, self-conceit. Obs. Cf. overweening.
1575Fenton Gold. Epist. (1582) 88 Temporall riches bring with them pride and wening to him that hath them. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1016 Yong gentlemen..filled with a great weening and opinion of themselves.
▪ II. † ˈweening, ppl. a. Obs.
[-ing2.]
1. That weens or thinks; cogitative.
c1391Chaucer Boeth. iii. pr. x. (1886) 71 Yif so be þat this good be in hym by nature, but that it is diuers fro hym by wenynge resoun [sed ratione diversum].
2. Self-conceited, arrogant, overweening.
1579Fenton Guicciard. ix. 465 The Swizzers being of nature proude and weening, became more raysed and lifted vp in minde by the estimation that others had of them. |