Noun: leasing
| Singular | leasing |
| Plural | leasings |
Sample Sentences
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fy on þi lawe / For al by lesynges þow lyuest · and lecherouse werkes. [c. 1378-9, [William Langland], “[Passus II]”, in The Vision of Pierce Plowman [...] (Cr, B-text), London: […] Roberte Crowley, […], published 1550, →OCLC:]
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Then ren they with leſinges, and blow them about,
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With, ‘He wrate ſuche a bil withouten dout’,
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With, ‘I can tel you what ſuch a man ſaid,
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And you knew all ye would be ill apayd’. [c. 1515–1516, John Skelton, 'Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c., published 1568:]
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Shewes, visions, sooth-sayes, and prophesies; / And all that fained is, as leasings, tales, and lies. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like leasing
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English lesing, leasung, from Old English lēasung (“leasing, lying, false witness, deceit, hypocrisy, artifice, lie, empty talk, frivolity, laxity”), from Proto-West Germanic *lausungu, from Proto-Germanic *lausungō, equivalent to lease (“to lie”) + -ing. Cognate with Scots lesing (“lying, falsehood”), German Lösung (“breaking away, release, liberation, solution”), Icelandic lausung (“lying, falsehood”). See: German Nouns '
Lösung', Icelandic Nouns '
lausung'.
Verbs referencing "leasing"
Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
leasing, Swedish Nouns
leasing, German Nouns
Lösung, Spanish Nouns
lisonja, German Nouns
Lesung, Russian Nouns
лизинг.