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单词 owning
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owningn.

Brit. /ˈəʊnɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈoʊnɪŋ/
Forms: Old English agenung, Old English agnung, Old English ahnung, Middle English oȝninge, 1500s– owning.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: own v., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < own v. + -ing suffix1. Compare later owing n.For the relative chronology of own and owning , compare discussion s.v. own v. In Old English the prefixed from geāgnung is also attested.
1. The holding of something as one's own; possession, ownership. Formerly also (occasionally): †property, possessions (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > owning > [noun]
auchteOE
owningOE
propertya1393
propriety1486
ownage1576
OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 235 Possessio, ahnung.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 37 Hi behoteþ to libbe wyþ-oute oȝninge [c1450 Bk. Vices & Virtues wiþ-out any good propre].
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Proprieté & appertenance, proprietie or owning.
1608 S. Hieron 6 Serm. iv. 63 Although the heire..come to the owning and fingering of that which he hath prepared.
1657 W. Dillingham in F. Vere Commentaries Ep. to Rdr. sig. A4 A copy..in the owning and possession of Major-General Skippon.
1847 Southern Q. Rev. Oct. 478 Property, which includes the owning of things and the acquiring of things.
1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 34 I do not mean to insist here on the disadvantage of hiring compared with owning.
1874 Times 17 Jan. 6/5 The sections of the company's Act which prohibited the making or owning of graving docks on the company's premises.
a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. xxii. 513 Why weaken myself just to gratify your mania for owning and bossing?
1988 L. Hutcheon Canad. Postmodern vii. 142 Marriage is presented as owning, as entrapment, even as consuming.
2002 Business Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 14 May 36 The construction, owning and operation of chemical carriers on long-term charter basis to petrochemical producers in West Asia.
2. Acknowledgement, affirmation, admission. Now somewhat archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > [noun]
willOE
allowancec1400
acceptationa1425
allowing1435
approof1439
approving1523
comprobation1529
owning1535
approbation1548
good liking?1560
suffrage1563
acceptance1569
liking1569
pleasure1569
allowment1570
approvance1592
probatum1606
approvement1615
sufferage1622
the light of a person's countenance1649
reception1660
receivedness1661
imprimatur1672
approval1690
sanction1738
go-down1753
rubber stamping1920
the mind > language > statement > acknowledgement, avowal, or confession > [noun]
anyetenessc1175
anyetingc1175
avowry1340
beknowledging1340
confessionc1384
professiona1513
owning1535
acknowledgement1574
avowment1581
submission1597
avowancea1603
confessing1611
avowinga1677
avowal1732
1535 G. Browne To Ld. Privy Seal in R. Ware Hist. Coll. Church Irel. (1681) 2 To procure the Nobility and Gentry of this Nation to due obedience, in owning of his Highness their supream Head as well Spiritual as Temporal.
c1610 J. Melville Mem. Own Life (1683) 55 The too much owning of Rixio, a known minion of the Pope, would give ground of suspicion.
1695 J. Locke Reasonableness of Christianity 261 The owning, and Profession of One God.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. cv. 383 Next to not erring, she used to say, was the owning of an error.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 320 One of the public and polititious warldly-wise men that stude up to prevent ane general owning of the cause in the day of power.
1888 F. W. O. Ward Women must Weep 130 A child..Begs..For the owning of her brothers.
a1952 A. W. Pink Gleanings from Script. (1970) i. iv. 65 There was no deep sorrow for his flagrant disobedience, and therefore no sincere owning of it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

owningadj.

Brit. /ˈəʊnɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈoʊnɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: own v., -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < own v. + -ing suffix2.
That owns or possesses something. Chiefly as the second element in compounds with prefixed noun designating the thing owned (for the more established of such compounds see the first element).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > owning > [adjective] > owning property or interests
owning1828
1828 J. F. Cooper Notions Amer. II. xiii. 296 The confederation is nearly equally divided into slave-owning, and what are called free states.
1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss I. i. vii. 112 A man..who had got his foot into a great mill-owning, ship-owning business like that of Guest & Co.
1904 Electr. Investm. 7 Dec. 773/1 A set-off against any advantage the owning company may be said to secure in extra traffic by the connection.
1923 M. Sadleir Desolate Splendour 80 Morvane and the literal appellation of its owning family.
1960 A. Tibble With Gordon in Sudan ii. 48 Those camel-owning nomads whom Gordon would meet between Dongola and Metemma were the Kababish.
2001 S. Johnson Emergence iv. 160 The big three networks were competing for the entire television-owning audience.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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