woulding

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

would +‎ -ing

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

woulding (plural wouldings)

  1. (obsolete) An emotion of desire; an inclination; velleity.
    • 1653, Henry Hammond, Paraphrase and Annotations on the New Testament:
      an act of some kind of woulding or appetite, and that is constantly twofold to the same matter; the flesh hath one woulding, and the spirit hath another

References[edit]

“woulding”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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