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hilding

[ hil-ding ]

noun

, Archaic.
  1. a contemptible person.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of hilding1

1575–85; perhaps to be identified with Middle English heldinge, hilding bending, swerving aside, Old English hylding, equivalent to hyld ( an ) to bend, incline + -ing -ing 1

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Example Sentences

Dost thou dispute with me, Alexander carry the prating hilding forth.

Two children might be seen playing about the garden from sunrise to sunset, but they were not old Hilding's children.

Some hilding fellow he must be, who dared not stay to assert his claim to the tourney prize which chance had assigned him.

As we have seen, he is in Saxo the progenitor of the Hilding Hildeger.

Hilding did not understand such mode of answering, and at length rebuked Frithiof for his indifference.

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