having

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of have

plural havings

1. countableuncountableThe act of possessing; ownership.

   He thus came to think of perceiving as a complex of 'havings,' not a complex of 'havings' and 'doings.'

   2002, Ronald Jager, The Development of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy

2. countableuncountableSomething owned; possession; goods; estate.

   Your havings wasted by the scythe and spade— Your rights and charters hobnail’d into slush—

   1875, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Queen Mary, London: Henry S. King, act II, scene 2, page 80

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   Out of my lean and low ability I’ll lend you something: my having is not much; I’ll make division of my present with you: Hold, there’s half my coffer.

   c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]

3. countableobsoleteuncountableA person's behaviour.
4. Scotlandcountablein pluralobsoleteuncountableGood manners.

comparative more having · superlative most having

1. obsoleteGrasping; greedy.

   The new man in Humanity, which is the communication of the Son of Man Who is the Interceder, is an asking man, although it is not a greedy and a having man.

   1875, Christ and the people, sermons, page 282