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▪ I. belonging, vbl. n.|bɪˈlɒŋɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1. Perhaps the pl. belongings was orig. taken from the pr. pple., in sense of ‘things belonging.’]
I. Usually in pl. only.
1. Circumstances connected with a person or thing; relations with another person or thing.
1603Shakes. Meas. for M. i. i. 30 Thy selfe and thy belongings Are not thine owne so proper. 1867Furnivall Percy Folio Pref. 5 Such information..as he would wish..in order to understand the belongings of it. 1873Browning Red Cotton Night-Cap Country 220 All my belongings, what is summed in life, I have submitted wholly..to your rule.
2. Possessions, goods, effects.
1817Baroness Bunsen in Hare Life I. v. 117 [They] did the honors of their belongings with ease. 1857Ruskin Pol. Econ. Art Add. §8 Jewels, liveries, and other such common belongings of wealthy people. 1871A. Hope Schoolboy Fr. (1875) 158 Rushing about collecting their belongings.
3. Persons related in any way; relatives.
1852Dickens Bleak Ho. II. 103, I have been trouble enough to my belongings in my day. 1866Sat. Rev. 24 Feb. 224/2 The rich uncle whose mission is to bring prosperity to his belongings.
4. A thing connected with, forming a part, appendage, or accessory of another.
1863D. Mitchell Farm Edgew. 196 When I have shown some curious city visitor all these belongings of the farm. 1868Lockyer Heavens (ed. 3) 26 These are the ‘Sun-spots,’ real movable belongings of the surface of the Sun. 1883Harper's Mag. Mar. 533/2 She had shown us the rest of the château with a sense of being a belonging of the place.
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5. The fact of appertaining, relationship. Esp. a person's membership in, and acceptance by, a group or society (cf. belong v. 4 b).
1879Whitney Skr. Gram. 275 There remain, as cases of doubtful belonging, etc. 1934W. Plomer Invaders ii. §4. 43 He had little sense of belonging, of being necessary to the world he lived in. 1958H. Reilly Ding Dong Bell (1959) i. 16 What the child needs is a settled home, a feeling of permanence, security, of belonging.
6. Comb. belonging-together(ness) (cf. belongingness 2).
1890W. James Princ. Psychol. I. x. 337 It seems as if our description of the belonging-together of the various selves, as a belonging-together which is merely represented, in a later pulse of thought, had knocked the bottom out of the matter. Ibid. II. xxviii. 671 Any really inward belonging-together of the sequent terms, if discovered, would be accepted as what the word cause was meant to stand for. 1938Mind XLVII. 380 From the outset our perceptual world is a continuum organised into ‘belonging-togethernesses’. 1939Ibid. XLVIII. 247 This belonging together is the basis of ‘Gestalt’ psychology.
▪ II. beˈlonging, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
Proper, appropriate; appertaining, accompanying.
1648Milton Tenure Kings (1650) 45 In hands better able and more belonging to manage them. 1869Ruskin Q. of Air §141 Sanctifying noble thought with separately distinguished loveliness of belonging sound. |