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Webster 1828 Edition

Fancying

FAN'CYING

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ppr.

Imagining; conceiving; liking.

Definition 2024

fancying

fancying

English

Verb

fancying

present participle of fancy

Noun

fancying ‎(plural fancyings)

Something fancied or imagined.
- Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
  These sad fancyings – chimeras, doubtless, of a sick and silly brain – led on the other and more special thoughts, concerning the eccentricities of Bartleby.