despending
despending is the present participle and gerund of despend.
Meaning of despend
Verb
despend (third-person singular simple present despends, present participle despending, simple past and past participle despended)
- To spend; to squander.
- Some noble men in Spain can despend 50000 l. ſome Forty, ſfome Thirty, and divers twenty thouſand Pounds per annum.1655, James Howell, “to the Lord Viscount Colcheſter”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley...
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- Despending is the present participle and gerund of despend.
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