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▪ I. † ˈlending, vbl. n.1
[f. lend v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of lend v.1; in quot. concr. dwelling-place, abode.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxvii. (Machor) 1170 One a bere brocht till a kirk þat befor to þaim lendyng was.
▪ II. lending, vbl. n.2|ˈlɛndɪŋ|
Forms: α. 4 lennynge, lynynge, 4–5 lening, -yng(e. β. 5– lending, (5–6 -ynge, -inge, etc.).
[f. lend v.2 + -ing1.]
1. The action of lend v.2; esp. the letting out of money at interest.
αa1340Hampole Psalter xxxvi. 27 [The rightwis] lennys, lerand and gifand almusdede till pore..and that is bot lennynge til god. 1340Ayenb. 35 Þis is þe uerste manere of gauelynge þet is ine leninge kueadliche. c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 277 Þat..borwyng & lynynge be frely don to pore men for goddis sake. c1440Jacob's Well 204 Þe encres þat þou takyst for þe lenyng. 1474Caxton Chesse iii. iv. G iij, Hit is sayd in reproche whan I lene I am thy frende, and whan I axe I am thyn enemye; as who saith, god at the lenyng, and the deuyll atte rendryng. 1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) vii. xxiv. 312 Yf wynnynge come frely to the lener for his lenynge without couenaunt.
βc1440Promp. Parv. 296/1 Lendynge, mut(u)acio. 1516Galway Arch. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 397 The lendinge or sellinge of anny the said vessells. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxii. 117 It is left to mens own inclinations to limit lending. 1785Paley Mor. Philos. iii. i. x. (1786) 133 There exists no reason, in the law of nature, why a man should not be paid for the lending of his money.
2. concr. Something lent;
a. gen. (fig. in pl.).
1602Marston Ant. & Mel. iv. v, Thou lost a good wife, thou lost a trew friend, ha? Two of the rarest lendings of the heauens. 1605Shakes. Lear iii. iv. 113 Vnaccommodated man, is no more but such a poore, bare, forked Animall as thou art. Off, off you Lendings: Come, vnbutton heere. 1884H. D. Traill in Macm. Mag. Oct. 439/1 If we except the lendings of recognised slang, the total number of such additions..is itself not considerable.
†b. spec. pl., money advanced to soldiers when the regular pay cannot be given. Obs.
1593Shakes. Rich. II, i. i. 89 Mowbray hath receiu'd eight thousand Nobles, In name of lendings for your Highnesse Soldiers. 1599Minsheu Span. Dialog. 59/2 The other [ducate] was taken out for lendings. [Note, Succors or lendings which they giue souldiers when there is no paie, and when the paie comes they take it off.] 1611Cotgr., Capesoulde, a Gentleman of a Companie; or one that hath extraordinarie Lendings; also extraordinarie Lendings, or entertainment. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. i. xviii. (1810) 193 The ready money which was payed to the Companie yearly for their Lendings. 1637R. Monro Exped. ii. 131 To satisfie our hunger a little, we did get of by-past lendings three paid us in hand, and Bills of Exchange given us for one and twentie lendings more.
3. attrib., as lending-department; lending-house Hist., applied spec. to certain institutions for lending money without interest or at a low rate to the poor.
1797W. Johnston tr. Beckmann's Invent. III. 21 Those who have as yet determined the origin of lending-houses..place it..from 1464 to 1471. 1890Spectator 14 June, 34,000 [books] for the general lending department [of the Edinburgh Public Library]. 1897Tablet 9 Oct. 567 It was Fra Barnaba who, in the 15th century..recommended the establishment of charitable lending-houses.
▪ III. ˈlending, ppl. a.
[f. lend v.2 + -ing2.]
That lends. lending library, a library from which books are lent out.
c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. cxii. v, He is..Most liberall and lending. 1708J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. iii. xii. 475 [The Libraries] of Cambridge are Lending-libraries; that is, he that is qualified may borrow out of it any book he wants. 1886Willis & Clark Cambridge III. 401 The..collection was..divided into what we should now term a Lending Library, and a Library of Reference. |