| 释义 | ▪ I. having, vbl. n.|ˈhævɪŋ|
[f. have v. + -ing1.]
1. The action or condition expressed by the verb have; possession.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Johannes 121 Of riches þe haffynge Is nocht Ill, bot þe Ill spendinge. 1579Fulke Confut. Sanders 679 He would not consent to the idolatrous hauing of images. 1644Bulwer Chirol. 65 The covetous desire of goods and the thirst of having. 1678Butler Hud. iii. i. 743 Find all his having and his holding Reduc'd t'eternal noise and scolding. 1890E. R. Esler Way Transgressors II. 221 If a book is worth buying and having it is worth taking care of.
2. concr. (often in pl.) That which one has or possesses; possession, property, wealth, belongings.
c1325Rel. Ant. II. 119 Litel and povere is myn having. c1460Towneley Myst. (Surtees) 162 For nothyng Thi neghburs goodys yerne wrongwysly; his house, his rent, ne his hafyng. a1652Brome Novella i. ii. Wks. 1873 I. 114 Looke to my house and havings; keepe all safe. 1851Ruskin Mod. Paint. II. iii. i. x. §8 Neither imagination..nor industry, nor sensibility, nor energy, nor any other good having. 1875Tennyson Q. Mary ii. ii, Your havings wasted by the scythe and spade.
3. (Often in pl.) Behaviour, manners, demeanour, deportment. Chiefly Sc. (Cf. have v. 12.)
1375Barbour Bruce vii. 135 The kyng..Persauit weill be thair hawyng That thai lufit hym in na thing. c1450tr. De Imitatione ii. i. 41 Þe wykkyd & wondyrfull hauyngys & beringes of men. 1501Douglas Pal. Hon. ii. xliii, The merie speiche, fair hauingis, hie renoun Of thame. 1789Burns Kirks Alarm xiii, Ye may ha'e some pretence To havins and sense. 1824Scott Redgauntlet Let. xii, By and attour her gentle havings.
▪ II. ˈhaving, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. That has or possesses; possessing property. (Now rare or Obs. exc. as participle.)
a1300Cursor M. 28943 Til him þat has bene hauand..and falles in-to state o nede plight-les. 1483Cath. Angl. 178/2 Havynge, habens, possidens.
2. Desirous of having or possessing; greedy, covetous, grasping. Now only dial.
1591Greene Disc. Coosnage (1592) 3 To be of a hauing and couetous mind. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 213 To a having mind, all is too little. 1860Geo. Eliot Mill on Fl. i. vi, She's as jealous and having as can be. 1892E. Lawless Grania II. ii. 91 A..spending, having brood they are. |
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