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rauening

rauening is the obsolete typography of ravening.

Meaning of ravening

Adjective

ravening (comparative more ravening, superlative most ravening)

  1. Voracious and greedy.
    • There is no shortage of ravening friends and relatives on the day one hits the lottery.
  2. (archaic) Subject to the voracity of a predator.
    • To be the strongers rauening pray the weaker did begin,
      And might went for oppressed right […]1567, “Hippolytus”, in John Studley, transl., edited by Thomas Newton, Seneca his tenne tragedies, translated into Englysh, published 1581, act 2

See all 4 meanings of ravening

Forms of rauening

Adjective
comparativemore rauening
superlativemost rauening
Noun
pluralrauenings

Questions about rauening

What is rauening the obsolete typography of?
Rauening is the obsolete typography of ravening.

Words near rauening in the dictionary

  1. Raudenbush
  2. Raudenbushes
  3. rauding
  4. Raudskinna
  5. Rauen
  6. rauening
  7. rauenings
  8. Rauens
  9. rauenthalite
  10. Rauf
  11. Raufs

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