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▪ I. inviting, vbl. n.|ɪnˈvaɪtɪŋ|
[f. invite v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. invite; invitation.
1586A. Day Eng. Secretary i. (1625) 12 A signe or inviting to good hap. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 680 Courtesies and kindnesses of drinking one to another, and mutuall invitings. 1607Shakes. Timon iii. vi. 11 He hath sent mee an earnest inuiting. 1618J. Winthrop Let. to Marg. Tyndal 4 Apr. in Life & Lett. (1864) I. vii. 136 Love was their ensigne; love was his invitinges. Mod. Not much inviting was needed.
▪ II. inˈviting, ppl. a.
[f. invite v. + -ing2.]
1. That invites or gives an invitation.
c1600Shakes. Sonn. cxxiv, Thralled discontent, Whereto the inviting time our fashion calls. 1684Bunyan Pilgr. ii. 16 How the King of the Country..had sent her an inviting Letter to come thither. 1820Chalmers Cong. Serm. (1838) II. 204 The spectacle of an inviting God, plying His wandering prodigal with all the tenderness of entreaty.
2. Attractive; alluring; tempting.
1604Shakes. Oth. ii. iii. 24 An inuiting eye: And yet me thinkes right modest. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 777 This Fruit Divine, Fair to the Eye, inviting to the Taste. 1703Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1732) 43 So pleasant and inviting was its shade. 1863M. Howitt F. Bremer's Greece I. iii. 80 The Greek saddles..do not look at all inviting. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt i, To let farms, a man must have the sense to see what will make them inviting to farmers. |