leasing
noun
lying; falsehood.
leasings
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pluralof leasing.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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For all thy sages are exceeding deceitful, they say leasings before thyself—that thou shalt find in this day's space.
From Brut by Eugene Mason
"Sir Knight," saith Messire Gawain, "Needs must the King miscarry that setteth aside the counsel of his good knights for the leasings of a traitor."
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans
I care no more for such a gillflirt," said the Jester, "than I do for thy leasings.
From Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
They do now but cry: Let us go and make sacrifice to our God, let them be oppressed by labor and exercised that they attend not to leasings.
From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Philip P. Wells
This anecdote led to a long discussion of All those idle thoughts and fantasies, Devices, dreams, opinions unsound, Shows, visions, soothsays, and prophecies, And all that feigned is, as leasings, tales, and lies.
From Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since by Sir Walter Scott
