pawning en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English pawn Middle English -ynge English -ing English pawning From pawn + -ing.
Meanings
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The act by which something is pawned.
Her road had again seemed to stretch out endless, she imagined that there might be hundreds and hundreds of such things that Edward was concealing from her – that they might necessitate more mortgagings, more pawnings of bracelets, more and always more horrors.
1915, Ford Madox Hueffer [i.e., Ford Madox Ford], chapter V, in The Good Soldier […], Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1972 (1982 printing), →ISBN, part I, page 63:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| pawnings | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (1)
es empeñamiento (noun)