- IPA(key): /ˈhævɪŋ/
- Hyphenation:ha‧ving
having
- presentparticiple andgerund ofhave
having (countable anduncountable,pluralhavings)
- The act of possessing; ownership.
2002, Ronald Jager,The Development of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy:He thus came to think of perceiving as a complex of 'havings,' not a complex of 'havings' and 'doings.'
- Somethingowned;possession;goods;estate.
c.1601–1602 (date written),William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act III, scene iv]:Out of my lean and low ability
I’ll lend you something: myhaving is not much;
I’ll make division of my present with you:
Hold, there’s half my coffer.
1875,Alfred, Lord Tennyson,Queen Mary[1], London: Henry S. King, act II, scene 2, page80:Yourhavings wasted by the scythe and spade—
Your rights and charters hobnail’d into slush—
- (obsolete) A person's behaviour.
- (obsolete, Scotland, chiefly in theplural) Good manners.
having (comparativemorehaving,superlativemosthaving)
- (obsolete)Grasping;greedy.
1875,Christ and the people, sermons, page282:The new man in Humanity, which is the communication of the Son of Man Who is the Interceder, is anasking man, although it is not a greedy and ahaving man.
