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friending en · NOUN
Meanings
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(obsolete, uncountable, usually) A sentiment of friendship
And what so poor a man as Hamlet is
May do t'express his love and friending to you.
c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v], lines 182-183:
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(Internet, uncountable, usually) An act of adding a person as a friend on a social network.
Refreshments followed, coupled with teary farewells and exchanges of phone numbers and emails, and Facebook friendings.
2015, John Ellsworth, Unspeakable Prayers:
Forms
friending en · VERB
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of friend