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UK
/kˈɛnɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈkɛnɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɛnɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry
How To Use kenning In A Sentence
- How did it come to be that he, lustrous Kennington, had to instruct these limp-wristed ladies in something he was born knowing? Shortcut Man
- You, I make no doubt, would be kenning the name of an herb in the Latin, and I have but the Gaelic for it, and that's good enough for me; but I ken the use of it as a traveller's friend whenever rains are smirring and mists are blowing. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
- Sulke argumente vertoon 'n growwe onverskilligheid teenoor en miskenning van die werklike onreg en lyding wat vervat is in die oorge-erfde rasse-strukture van ons samelewings-instellings. TOESPRAAK DEUR PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA BY DIE GELEENTHEID TER ONTVANGS VAN 'N ERE-GRAAD VAN DIE UNIVERSITEIT VAN PRETORIA
- Deur middel van 'n duisend projekte dwarsoor die land, word daar in hierdie week gevier en erkenning gegee aan die krag van vennootskap en selfopheffing, aan bemagting en selfverantwoordelikheid - dit alles in diens van die verandering en verbetering van mense se lewens, en die bou van' n nuwe Suid ANC Daily News Briefing
- The American Heritage Dictionary says that window is an example of a type of word called a "kenning" that the Norse loved to invent.
- Based on the kenning degree of whiting value of grey number, this paper gives a kind of order relations of interval grey number.
- The example that is often trotted out is from Beowulf where the kenning "whale road" is used to mean the sea.
- While Kenning will recover from his attack, it should be remindful of all researchers, hikers and campers to be aware that they are in nature and that even in a tent danger can lurk. Archive 2007-05-01
- I like 'Mighty-sinewed chemist's daughter' myself, though I suspect that's not a kenning because it's, y'know. Mrissa: Also
- I like 'Mighty-sinewed chemist's daughter' myself, though I suspect that's not a kenning because it's, y'know. Mrissa: Also