The new man in Humanity, which is the communication of the Son of Man Who is the Interceder, is an asking man, although it is not a greedy and a having man. 1875, Christ and the people, sermons, page 282:
(countable, uncountable) The act of possessing; ownership.
He thus came to think of perceiving as a complex of 'havings,' not a complex of 'havings' and 'doings.' 2002, Ronald Jager, The Development of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy:
Out of my lean and low ability
I’ll lend you something: my having is not much;
I’ll make division of my present with you:
Hold, there’s half my coffer. c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
Your havings wasted by the scythe and spade—
Your rights and charters hobnail’d into slush— 1875, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Queen Mary, London: Henry S. King, act II, scene 2, page 80:
(countable, obsolete, uncountable) A person's behaviour.
(Scotland, countable, in-plural, obsolete, uncountable) Good manners.