own
adjective
of, relating to, or belonging to oneself or itself (usually used after a possessive to emphasize the idea of ownership, interest, or relation conveyed by the possessive).
am owning
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present progressiveof own (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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"I am owning to a fault, making a clean breast of my sins, not without a faint hope that I am setting an example that will be beautifully and bountifully followed."
From Salthaven by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
“To your goodness,” the boy wrote to Washington, “I am owning the most beautiful prospect I may ever behold.”
From Erskine Dale?Pioneer by John Fox
If I say what you tell me to say to him—I am owning that I have degraded myself to his face.
From The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
But while I am owning to a good deal that seems to me lamentably wrong in the behavior of the Boy's Town boys, I ought to remember one or two things to their credit.
From A Boy's Town by William Dean Howells
