Definitions
Renting property, vehicles, or equipment for a period.
Word origin
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”).
Used in a sentence
“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.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Renting long-term”7 letters
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