weeningn.
/ˈwiːnɪŋ/ Obsolete or archaic.† 2. Arrogant opinion, self-conceit. Obsolete. Cf. overweening n.
1. † 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. Obsolete.
a. The action of thinking, supposing, expecting, etc. In Middle English often = mere opinion, surmise or suspicion (as opposed to certain knowledge).
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > supposition, surmise > [noun]
weeningc900
wenc1000
susposea1325
deeming1340
supposala1425
conjecturec1460
supposing1530
supposition1565
suppose1582
surmise1593
surmisal1641
putation1649
expectation1793
c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. iv. xix. (Caius) Þæt heo ða wenunge æt nyhstan ðurhteah.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 7423 Þer wenyng þat day þey tynt.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 113 Hit is ope substance, þet is, uirtuous and substanciel aboue onderstondingge and wenynge.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xx. 33 Wenynge is no wysdome ne wyse ymagynacioun.
1397 Rolls of Parl. III. 379/2 It was my menyng and my wenyng for to have do the best.
c1400 Rom. Rose 2601 Hit is but foly and wrong wenyng To aske so outrageous a thyng.
c1420 Prose Life Alex. 36 Ȝe wende hafe done till vs as ȝour eldirs didde sumtyme till kynge ȝerses, bot ȝour wenyng dessayued ȝow.
1477 T. Norton Ordinall of Alchimy i, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 22 An old Proverbe, In a Bushell of weeninge, Is not found one handfull of Cunninge.
1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. ☞v Surmountyng the imperfection of coniecture, weenyng and opinion.
a1633 G. Herbert Outlandish Prov. (1640) sig. D4v Weening is not measure.
1635 A. Gil Sacred Philos. Holy Script. i. xiii. 96 These upstart weenings are so witlesse, as they are false.
1652 H. Bell tr. M. Luther Colloquia Mensalia 225 A Preacher..should..not build upon a weening,..but must bee sure of the Caus.
1654 J. Ellistone & J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme Mysterium Magnum xl. 273 It lyeth not in any mans own willing, weening, running, or going to will.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > doubt, be uncertain [verb (intransitive)]
tweonc897
to be at or in weeningc1275
doubtc1325
dreadc1400
vary1477
swither1535
stay1583
to have or make scruple of1600
demur1612
demurea1616
hesitate1623
Nicodemize1624
scruple1639
scrupulize1642
query1647
to make doubt1709
to have scruples1719
to have weres1768
mislippen1816
dubitate1837
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expect [verb (intransitive)] > with anxiety or eagerness
to be at or in weeningc1275
on or upon (one's) tiptoes1642
tiptoe1883
to be unable (etc.) to wait1938
the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > convince someone [phrase]
to put in weeningc1275
to bear in handc1300
to threap (something) uponc1440
to bear (a person or thing) in (also an, a, on) handa1716
the mind > mental capacity > belief > [adverb] > to the best of one's belief
to (one's) weening1487
c1275 Passion of our Lord 595 in Old Eng. Misc. 54 As heo stode and speken and weren at wenynge Of vre louerdes aryste and fele oþer þinge.
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) i. cviii. 57 Vn yrened j took it thee, for to my weenynge thou shuldest bere it the bettere.
c1440 Partonope 8588 Ye haue chose some new thinge, And wolde put me in wenyng That it were for good Partonope.
c1480 (a1400) St. Anastasia 184 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 412 As he wend he had done til his wenyng Inuch.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 40 Nay I shal brynge you out of wenyng and shewe it you by good wytnes.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) iv. 765 Sen thai ar in sic venyng [1489 Adv. wenyng], Forouten certane vitting.
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the mind > emotion > pride > self-esteem > conceit > [noun]
opinionc1425
wind1484
vokea1508
conceit1567
self-weening1570
cockishness1573
weening1575
self-conceit1576
self-opinion1593
conceitedness1595
self-conceitednessa1602
self-opinionatedness1668
self-opinionativeness1743
egotism1800
swell-head1845
big-head1850
big-headedness1850
self-opinionedness1879
swollen head1898
swelled-headedness1907
ikeyness1911
1575 G. Fenton Golden Epist. f. 50 Temporall riches bring wyth them Pryde and weening to him that hath them.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1016 Yong gentlemen..filled with a great weening and opinion of themselves.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
† weeningadj.
Obsolete.
1. That weens or thinks; cogitative.
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the mind > mental capacity > thought > [adjective]
weeningc1391
cogitative1490
busy-headeda1555
busy-brained1573
thinking1606
thoughtsome1627
cogitanta1680
c1391 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (1886) iii. pr. x. 71 Yif so be þat this good be in hym by nature, but that it is diuers fro hym by wenynge resoun [L. sed ratione diversum].
2. Self-conceited, arrogant, overweening.
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the mind > emotion > pride > self-esteem > conceit > [adjective]
opinative1517
opinionativea1549
nose-wise?1566
self-conceited?1574
self-weening1574
opiniative?1575
opinionate1575
conceited1579
weening1579
self-opinionative1584
self-opinionate1602
well-opinioned1608
self-opinioned1609
opinioned1612
opinionated1630
cocklikea1635
self-opinionated1649
vogie1719
swell-headed1817
egotistical1825
airish1842
popular1848
big-headed1860
biggity1880
bigsie1881
ikey1881
Tappertitian1895
swollen-headed1928
ditzy1976
1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin 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.
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