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costning

costning noun: temptation.

Noun

costning

  1. (UK, dialectal) Temptation.

Origin of costning

From Middle English costning, costnunge, from Old English costnung (“temptation, testing, trial, tribulation”), from Old English costnian, variant of Old English costian (“to tempt, try, prove, examine”), from Proto-Germanic *kustōną (“to try, taste”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵews- (“to enjoy, taste”), equivalent to cost + -ing. Cognate with German kosten (“to taste”). Related to choose.

Questions about costning

What does costning mean?
Costning means temptation.
What part of speech is costning?
Costning is a noun.

Words near costning in the dictionary

  1. costly colors
  2. costly colours
  3. costmaries
  4. costmary
  5. Costner
  6. costning
  7. costo-
  8. costoabdominal
  9. costoaxillary
  10. costocentral
  11. costocervical

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