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▪ I. enˈjoying, vbl. n.
[f. enjoy v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb enjoy; enjoyment.
1536Anne Boleyn Let. Hen. VIII in Select. Harl. Misc. (1793) 149 Must bring you the enjoying of your desired happiness. 1603Florio Montaigne (1634) 495 All enjoyings are not alike. 1651Hobbes, Leviath. iii. xli. 264 The enjoying of Immortality, in the Kingdome of the Son of Man.
pl.1621Lady M. Wroath Urania 148 Those loose and wicked enjoyings which we coveted. Ibid. 229, 297, 371.
▪ II. enjoying, ppl. a.|ɛnˈdʒɔɪɪŋ|
[f. enjoy v. + -ing2.]
That enjoys; cheerful, happy.
1655Earl of Orrery Parthen. (1676) 5 An enjoying Lover. 1857De Quincey Bentley Wks. VII. 97 In the same cheerful and enjoying frame of mind did Bentley sit by his happy fireside in Trinity Lodge. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt xxxiv. He was..less bright and enjoying than usual. |