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▪ I. wishing, vbl. n.|ˈwɪʃɪŋ|
[f. wish v. + -ing1.]
a. The action of the verb wish; desire; sometimes spec. † (a) evil desire, concupiscence; (b) imprecation.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 179 Ne wrec þu þe mid wussinge ne mid warienge. c1220Bestiary 334 Golsipe and ȝiscing, ȝiuernesse and wissing. 1390Gower Conf. I. 319 He set the herte in jeupartie With wihssinge and with fantasie. c1500Melusine 177 Our desyre and wysshyng is brought to effect. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. lxxviii. [lxxiv.] 90 b/1 Theyr horses serued them at theyr wysshyng. 1590J. Stockwood Rules Constr. 3 Some aduerbe of wishing, as vtinam. 1599Shakes. Much Ado iv. i. 329, I cannot be a man with wishing, therfore I will die a woman with grieuing. 1742Young Nt. Th. iv. 71 Wishing, of all employments, is the worst. 1842Newman Par. Serm. VI. xii. 154 Wishing will not serve instead of coming. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey II. 264 The power of obtaining anything by wishing.
b. An instance of this, a wish; formerly sometimes passing into the sense ‘a request, petition’: cf. wish n.1 2, v. 5.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. ii. 90 In wedes and in wisshynges and with ydel thouȝtes. 1426Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 6231 My desyr & my wysshynges Resten fully in thys thynges. 1548Udall Erasm. Par. Pref. to Edw. VI, a ij, Our daily wysshinges and praiers. 1561Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer i. (1577) F v b, A wishing for that hee thought he had not. 1648Fanshawe Il Pastor Fido ii. iv. 64 They..Who not with wishings onely seek her favour. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 191 Such were these earnest Wishings. 1877Meredith Gen. Ople viii, Our young barbarians..interest us in their wishings, their weepings, and..their kissings.
†c. wishing(s and woulding(s: see woulding.
d. attrib. and Comb. in many designations of objects supposed to be capable of magically conferring the fulfilment of one's wishes, as wishing-bone (= wish-bone, wish n.1 4), wishing-cap, wishing-gate, wishing-hat, wishing-purse, wishing-rod, wishing-stone, wishing-tree, wishing-well.
1860Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 3), *Wishing-Bone.
1600Dekker Old Fortunatus E 4 b, Hauing this mint [sc. the purse] about me, I shall want no *wishing Cap. a1674Traherne Chr. Ethics (1675) 436 The fools wishing cap and the philosophers stone are but trifles. 1825Scott Jrnl. 27 Dec., I have worn a wishing-cap, the power of which has been to divert present griefs.
1828Wordsw. Wishing-gate 18 The rustic *Wishing-gate.
1600Dekker Old Fortunatus H 1, Ile steale his *wishing Hat.
1855Motley Dutch Rep. vi. i. III. 396 The *wishing purse in his hand.
1850Lettsom Fall Nibelungers mclx. 197 The *wishing-rod of gold.
1859G. W. Dasent Pop. Tales from Norse (ed. 2) p. xcii, Thus, we have oska-steinn, *wishing-stone, i.e. a stone which plays the part of a divining rod. 1908Daily Chron. 20 Oct. 1/3 A wishing-stone.
a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. (1922) 22 That she might have the first possession of the *wishing tree.
1792J. Moore Monast. Rem. 2 The *wishing wells still remain. 1891Atkinson Moorland Par. 235 One of these now unsuspected..wishing-wells or hâlikelds.
▪ II. ˈwishing, ppl. a.
[f. wish v. + -ing2.]
That wishes, longing, desirous; expressing a wish.
† wishing and woulding (quot. 1620): cf. prec. c.
1530Palsgr. 329/2 Wysshynge, optatif. 1579–80North Plutarch, Solon & Publicola (1595) 121 In wishing manner, he would his end should be lamented to his praise. 1620J. King Serm. 24 Mar. 3 It is not a wishing and woulding mercy, but a preuailing, speeding, releeuing mercy. 1662Howell New Engl. Gram. 62 The Optatif or wishing Mood. 1703Rowe Ulysses i. i, The wishing Warmth of Youth. 1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. iii. iv, Return'd to cheer his wishing tenant's sight. 1819Shelley Peter Bell 3rd v. vi, Now Peter..Would..balk Some wishing guest of knife or fork.
Hence ˈwishingly adv., desirously, longingly; in quot. 1571, optatively.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxxii. 2. 269 b, Some reade it wishingly; Othersome reteine the future tence, so as it should bee a prophesie. 1731Bailey (ed. 5), Desirously, wishingly. |