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fortuning

fortuning is the present participle and gerund of fortune.

Meaning of fortune

Verb

fortune (third-person singular simple present fortunes, present participle fortuning, simple past and past participle fortuned)

  1. (transitive) To provide (someone) with a fortune.
  2. (transitive) To tell the fortune of (someone); to presage.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To happen, to take place.
    • Thẽ the heerdmẽ⸝ fleed and went there ways into the cite⸝ and tolde every thinge⸝ and what had fortuned vnto them that were poſſeſſed of the devyls.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Gospell off S. Mathew viij:[33], folios x, verso – xi, recto

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Questions about fortuning

What is fortuning the present participle and gerund of?
Fortuning is the present participle and gerund of fortune.

Words near fortuning in the dictionary

  1. fortunes
  2. fortuneteller
  3. fortunetellers
  4. fortunetelling
  5. Fortunian
  6. fortuning
  7. fortunings
  8. fortunise
  9. fortunised
  10. fortunises
  11. fortunising

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