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
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
For to what purpose should an Historiographer make leasings, if history be a report of plaine trueth?
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Richard Hakluyt
He hates fowle leasings, and vile flatterie, Two filthie blots in noble gentrie; And lothefull idlenes he doth detest, The canker worme of everie gentle brest.
From Spenser by R. W. (Richard William) Church
