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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Middle English form of leasing.

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Examples

  • Ai leesing n riding a big jentl horsey taht R part Clydesdale, liek Petunia.

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  • But, to our purpose, yong men, by any meanes, leesing the loue of learning, whan by tyme they cum to their owne rule, they carie commonlie, from the schole with them, a perpetuall hatred of their master, and a continuall contempt of learning.

    The Scholemaster 1870

  • Doesn't the beer want tunning, and thou'rt leesing there o 'thy haunches; at thy whys and thy wise speeches.

    Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) John Roby 1821

  • But, to our purpose, yong men, by any meanes, leesing the loue of learning, whan by tyme they cum to their owne rule, they carie commonlie, from the schole with them, a perpetuall hatred of their master, and a continuall contempt of learning.

    The Scholemaster 1570

  • But, to our purpose, yong men, by any meanes, leesing the loue of learning, whan by tyme they cum to their owne rule, they carie commonlie, from the schole with them, a perpetuall hatred of their master, and a continuall contempt of learning.

    The Schoolmaster Roger Ascham 1541

  • And bicause the name of the author (being of no small credit with the learned, for those his sundry well written workes) is of it selfe sufficient to cary greater commendation therewith, than my pen is able to write, I leave to labour therein, least my lacke may be an occasion to the leesing of his due praise.

    The Most Pleasant and Delectable Questions of Love 1340

  • Page with the learned, for those his sundry well written workes) is of it selfe sufficient to cary greater commendation therewith, than my pen is able to write, I leave to labour therein, least my lacke may be an occasion to the leesing of his due praise.

    The Most Pleasant and Delectable Questions of Love 1931

  • "Some of 'em will cudgel thy leesing out o 'thee, I hope.

    Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) John Roby 1821

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