wishing
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- enPR: wĭshʹĭng, IPA(key): /ˈwɪʃɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -ɪʃɪŋ
- Homophone: whishing (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
- Hyphenation: wish‧ing
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Verb[edit]
wishing
- present participle and gerund of wish
Noun[edit]
wishing (plural wishings)
- The act of making a wish.
- 1852, Chambers's Papers for the People, volumes 9-10, page 167:
- Discourse there was none; only exclamations and interjections, and wishings, wishings, wishings that Bessy were but his own for ever — his dear, dear little wife, as assuredly one day she should be!