mortgaging

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English

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Etymology

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From mortgage +‎ -ing.

Noun

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mortgaging (plural mortgagings)

  1. The act by which something is mortgaged.
    • 1915, Ford Madox Hueffer [i.e., Ford Madox Ford], chapter V, in The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head; New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, →OCLC; republished Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, 1972 (1982 printing), →ISBN, part I, page 63:
      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.

Verb

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mortgaging

  1. present participle and gerund of mortgage