Definition of penning Penning
/pɛˈnɪŋ/ - [pening] - pen•ning
We found 5 definitions of penning from 4 different sources.
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What does penning mean?
WordNet
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| penning - the act of creating written works; "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship" | ||
| writing, authorship, composition | ||
| verbal creation creating something by the use of speech and language | ||
| adoxography fine writing in praise of trivial or base subjects; "Elizabethan schoolboys were taught adoxography, the art of eruditely praising worthless things"; "adoxography is particularly useful to lawyers" | ||
| drafting the craft of drawing blueprints | ||
| dramatisation, dramatization a dramatic representation | ||
| fictionalisation, fictionalization, fabrication a literary work based partly or wholly on fact but written as if it were fiction | ||
| historiography the writing of history | ||
| metrification the act of changing from imperial units of measurement to metric units: meters, grams, seconds | ||
| novelisation, novelization converting something into the form of a novel | ||
| redaction the act of putting something in writing | ||
| lexicography the act of writing dictionaries | ||
| versification the art or practice of writing verse | ||
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Wiktionary 
- penning (Verb)
Present participle of pen.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- penning (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Pen - penning (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Pen
Part of speech
🔤- penning, verb, gerund of pen (infinitive).
