having

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of have

noun

  1. The act of possessing; ownership.
    He thus came to think of perceiving as a complex of 'havings,' not a complex of 'havings' and 'doings.' 2002, Ronald Jager, The Development of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy
  2. Something owned; possession; goods; estate.
    Your havings wasted by the scythe and spade— 1875, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Queen Mary, London: Henry S. King, act II, scene 2, page 80
  3. (obsolete) A person's behaviour.
  4. (obsolete, Scotland, chiefly in the plural) Good manners.

adj

  1. (obsolete) Grasping; greedy.
    The new man in Humanity, which is the communication of the Son of Man Who is the Interceder, is an asking man, although it is not a greedy and a having man. 1875, Christ and the people, sermons, page 282

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