wishing

English

Pronunciation
  • enPR: wĭshʹĭng, IPA(key): /ˈwɪʃɪŋ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪʃɪŋ
  • Homophone: whishing (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
  • Hyphenation: wish‧ing
  • Audio (US)(file)

Verb

wishing

  1. present participle of wish

Noun

wishing (plural wishings)

  1. The act of making a wish.
    • 1852, Chambers's Papers for the People (volumes 9-10, page 167)
      Discourse there was none; only exclamations and interjections, and wishings, wishings, wishings that Bessy were but his own for ever — his dear, dear little wife, as assuredly one day she should be!
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