leasing
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English lesing, leasung, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English lēasung (“leasing, lying, false witness, deceit, hypocrisy, artifice, lie, empty talk, frivolity, laxity”), from lēasian (“to lie”), from lēas (“false, faithless, untruthful, deceitful, lax, vain, worthless”). Cognate with Scots lesing (“lying”). More at lease.
Noun
leasing (plural leasings)
- (archaic) A lie; the act of lying, falsehood.
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
- fy on þi lawe / For al by lesynges þow lyuest · and lecherouse werkes.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Shewes, visions, sooth-sayes, and prophesies; / And all that fained is, as leasings, tales, and lies.
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
Etymology 2
From lease.
Verb
leasing
Noun
leasing (countable and uncountable, plural leasings)
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Anagrams
Polish
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English
Pronunciation
Noun
leasing m inan
Declension
Declension of leasing
singular | plural | |
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nominative | leasing | leasingi |
genitive | leasingu | leasingów |
dative | leasingowi | leasingom |
accusative | leasing | leasingi |
instrumental | leasingiem | leasingami |
locative | leasingu | leasingach |
vocative | leasingu | leasingi |
Derived terms
Spanish
Noun
leasing m (plural leasings)
Swedish
Noun
leasing
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