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单词 wishing
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wishingn.

/ˈwɪʃɪŋ/
Etymology: < wish v. + -ing suffix1.
a. The action of wish v.; desire; sometimes spec. (a) evil desire, concupiscence; (b) imprecation.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > wishing > [noun]
wishingc1200
optationa1398
apprecation1606
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 179 Ne wrec þu þe mid wussinge ne mid warienge.
c1220 Bestiary 334 Golsipe and ȝiscing, ȝiuernesse and wissing.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 319 He set the herte in jeupartie With wihssinge and with fantasie.
c1500 Melusine (1895) 177 Our desyre and wysshyng is brought to effect.
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. lxxviii. [lxxiv.] 90 b/1 Theyr horses serued them at theyr wysshyng.
1590 J. Stockwood Eng. Accidence 3 Some aduerbe of wishing, as vtinam.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iv. i. 323 I cannot be a man with wishing, therfore I will die a woman with grieuing. View more context for this quotation
1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 7 Wishing, of all Employments is the worst.
1842 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. VI. xii. 154 Wishing will not serve instead of coming.
1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of 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, wish v. 5.
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the mind > language > speech > request > [noun] > desire or wish
willOE
yering13..
wishing1377
desirea1400
wish1513
the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > wishing > [noun] > a wish
wishing1377
wish1390
option1593
would1753
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. ii. 90 In wedes and in wisshynges and with ydel thouȝtes.
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 6231 My desyr & my wysshynges Resten fully in thys thynges.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Pref. to Edw. VI, sig. aij Our daily wysshinges and praiers.
1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer i. sig. J.iv A wishing for that he thought he had not.
1648 R. Fanshawe tr. B. Guarini Pastor Fido ii. iv. 64 They..Who not with wishings onely seek her favour.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 222 Such were these earnest Wishings.
1877 G. Meredith Gen. Ople viii Our young barbarians..interest us in their wishings, their weepings, and..their kissings.
c. wishing(s) and woulding(s): see woulding n.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations in many designations of objects supposed to be capable of magically conferring the fulfilment of one's wishes.
wishing-bone n. = wishbone n.
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1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) Wishing-Bone.
wishing-cap n.
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the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [noun] > magical object > for making wish > wishing-cap
wishing-cap1600
wishing-hat1600
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap > types of > other
toque1505
biggin1511
button cap1527
undercap1531
biggin1558
fool's cap1577
apex1578
blue capa1586
wishing-cap1600
Wantage cap1609
infernal1610
porringer1623
montera1626
montera cap1652
school cap1736
wing cap1775
balloon1784
balloon-cap1785
spider-cap1790
poke-fly cap1810
strap-cap1820
mandarin cap1835
porringer-cap1839
chechia1853
turban1862
mitre1877
turban-cap1881
half-cap1893
pillbox cap1897
Queen Mary hat1928
snap-back1937
songkok1960
pakul1982
1600 T. Dekker Old Fortunatus sig. E4v Hauing this mint [sc. the purse] about me, I shall want no wishing Cap.
a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) 436 The fools Wishing Cap, and the Philosophers Stone are but trifles.
1825 W. Scott Jrnl. 27 Dec. (1939) 58 I have worn a wishing-cap the power of which has been to divert present griefs.
wishing-gate n.
ΚΠ
1828 W. Wordsworth Wishing-gate 18 The rustic Wishing-gate.
wishing-hat n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > other
cap (also hat) of maintenancec1475
hat1483
wishing-hat1600
cockle hat1603
porringer1623
poke1632
custard-cap1649
bonnet1675
muff-box1678
Caroline1687
Quaker1778
meat safe1782
balloon hat1784
gypsy hat1785
cabriolet1797
gypsy bonnet1803
Gypsy1806
Wellington hat1809
fan-tail-hat1810
umbrella hat1817
radical1828
caubeen1831
topi1835
montera1838
Petersham1845
squash hat1860
Moab1864
kiddy1865
flap-hat1866
Dolly Varden1872
brush-hata1877
potae1881
Pope's-hat1886
plateau1890
kelly1915
push-back1920
kiss-me-quick hat1963
pakul1982
tinfoil hat1982
the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [noun] > magical object > for making wish > wishing-cap
wishing-cap1600
wishing-hat1600
1600 T. Dekker Old Fortunatus sig. H1 Ile steale his wishing Hat.
wishing-purse n.
ΚΠ
1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic III. vi. i. 396 The wishing purse in his hand.
wishing-rod n.
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1850 Lettsom Fall Nibelungers mclx. 197 The wishing-rod of gold.
wishing-stone n.
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1859 G. W. Dasent tr. P.C. Asbjørnsen & J. Moe 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.
1908 Daily Chron. 20 Oct. 1/3 A wishing-stone.
wishing-tree n.
ΚΠ
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Gg4v That she might haue the first possession of the wishing tree.
wishing-well n.
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the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [noun] > magical object > for making wish > wishing-well
wishing-well1791
1791 J. Moore Monastic Remains 2 The wishing wells still remain.
1891 J. C. Atkinson Forty Years Moorland Parish 235 One of these now unsuspected..wishing-wells or hâlikelds.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

wishingadj.

Etymology: < wish v. + -ing suffix2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈwishing.
That wishes, longing, desirous; expressing a wish. wishing and woulding (quot. 1620): cf. wishing n. c.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > wishing > [adjective]
willinga1425
wishing1530
wishful1733
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 329/2 Wysshynge, optatif.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 121 In wishing manner, he would his end should be lamented to his prayse.
1620 Bp. J. King Serm. 24 Mar. 3 It is not a wishing and woulding mercy, but a preuailing, speeding, releeuing mercy.
1662 J. Howell New Eng. Gram. 62 The Optatif or wishing Mood.
1703 N. Rowe Ulysses i. i The wishing Warmth of Youth.
1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd iii. iv Return'd to cheer his wishing tenant's sight.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III v, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 242/2 Now Peter..Would..baulk Some wishing guest of knife or fork.

Derivatives

ˈwishingly adv. desirously, longingly; in quot. 1571, optatively.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > wishing > [adverb]
wishingly1571
wishfully1598
optatively1626
wishlya1825
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lxxii. 2) i. f. 269v Some reade it wishingly; Othersome reteine the future tence, so as it should bee a prophesie.
1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 5) Desirously, wishingly.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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