leasing
/ˈliːzɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "fy on þi lawe / For al by lesynges þow lyuest · and lecherouse werkes."
- "Then ren they with leſinges, and blow them about, With, ‘He wrate ſuche a bil withouten dout’, With, ‘I can tel you what ſuch a man ſaid, And you knew all ye would be ill apayd’."
- "Shewes, visions, sooth-sayes, and prophesies; / And all that fained is, as leasings, tales, and lies."
Etymology
From Middle English lesing, leasung, from Old English lēasung (“leasing, lying, false witness, deceit, hypocrisy, artifice, lie, empty talk, frivolity, laxity”), from Proto-West Germanic *lausungu, from Proto-Germanic *lausungō, equivalent to lease (“to lie”) + -ing. Cognate with Scots lesing (“lying, falsehood”), German Lösung (“breaking away, release, liberation, solution”), Icelandic lausung (“lying, falsehood”).