{"id":37893,"date":"2022-12-09T07:53:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T13:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=37893"},"modified":"2022-12-09T07:53:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T13:53:59","slug":"word-of-the-day-844","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/12\/09\/word-of-the-day-844\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Weening<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>archaic<\/em><br \/>\n: to hold as an opinion : SUPPOSE, BELIEVE<br \/>\n<span class=\"ex-sent  first-child has-aq sents\">Little did he\u00a0<em><span class=\"mw_t_wi\">ween<\/span><\/em>\u00a0that these wretched rags he now wore, were but suitable to that long career of destitution before him \u2026<\/span><span class=\"ex-sent aq has-aq sents\"><span class=\"aq\"><span class=\"auth\">\u00a0Herman Melville<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"ex-sent   has-aq sents\">Since primal Man was fashioned \/ To people ice and stones, \/ No pair, I\u00a0<em><span class=\"mw_t_wi\">ween<\/span><\/em>, had ever been \/ Such chums as I and JONES.<\/span><span class=\"ex-sent aq has-aq sents\"><span class=\"aq\"><span class=\"auth\">\u00a0P. G. Wodehouse<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/weening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Merriam-Webster<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, no sightings. The word <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/overweening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overweening<\/a><\/em>, meaning arrogant, had occurred to me yesterday as a bit of verbiage I hardly ever encounter on the Web, and, as it seemed likely to be a word constructed from others, I then wondered as to the meanings of <em>weening<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I have read Melville, and I have the bloodstains to prove it. While I enjoyed <em><strong>Moby-Dick<\/strong><\/em>, at the end of <em><strong>Pierre<\/strong><\/em> I seriously considered clawing out my eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weening: archaic : to hold as an opinion : SUPPOSE, BELIEVE Little did he\u00a0ween\u00a0that these wretched rags he now wore, were but suitable to that long career of destitution before him \u2026\u00a0Herman Melville Since primal Man was fashioned \/ To people ice and stones, \/ No pair, I\u00a0ween, had ever \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/12\/09\/word-of-the-day-844\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37894,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37893\/revisions\/37894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}