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ravenings

ravenings is the plural of ravening.

Meaning of ravening

Noun

ravening (plural ravenings)

  1. (archaic, literary) Predation (by an animal); voracious eating or consumption.
    • Some rather deuoure than eate their meate non other wyse than suche as be ledde in to prison. This rauenyng and deuourynge is appropred to theues.1532, Desiderius Erasmus, “Of maners at table”, in Robert Whittington, transl., A Lytell Booke of Good Maners for Chyldren, London
  2. Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.
    • We must kyll diuelish pryde, furious angre, insatiable couetousnes, filthy lucre, stinking lechery, deadly hatred & malice, foxy wilines, woluish rauening & deuouring, and al other vnreasonable lustes and desires of the fleshe.1550, Thomas Cranmer, A Defence of the True and Catholike Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Body and Bloud of our Sauiour Christ, London, Book 5, Chapter 8, p. 109

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Ravenings is the plural of ravening.

Words near ravenings in the dictionary

  1. Ravenhills
  2. ravenhood
  3. ravening
  4. Raveningham
  5. raveningly
  6. ravenings
  7. ravenish
  8. ravenless
  9. ravenlike
  10. Ravenloftian
  11. ravenly

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