Enjoying vbl. sb.

[f. ENJOY v. + -ING¹.] The action of the verb ENJOY; enjoyment.

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1536. Anne Boleyn, Let. Hen. VIII., in Select. fr. Harl. Misc. (1793), 149. Must bring you the enjoying of your desired happiness.

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1603. Florio, Montaigne (1632), 495. All enjoyings are not alike.

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1651. Hobbes, Leviath., III. xli. 264. The enjoying of Immortality, in the Kingdome of the Son of Man.

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pl. 1621. Lady M. Wroth, Urania, 148. Those loose and wicked enioyings which we coueted. Ibid., 229, 297, 371.

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