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Webster 1913 Edition
Friending
Friend′ing
,Noun.
 Friendliness. 
[Obs.] 
Shak.
 Definition 2025
friending
friending
English
Noun
friending (usually uncountable, plural friendings)
-  (obsolete) A sentiment of friendship
-  1602, Hamlet, William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 5 lines 182-183
- And what so poor a man as Hamlet is
 - May do t'express his love and friending to you.
 
 
 -  1602, Hamlet, William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 5 lines 182-183
 -  (Internet) An act of adding a person as a friend on a social network.
-  2015, John Ellsworth, Unspeakable Prayers
- Refreshments followed, coupled with teary farewells and exchanges of phone numbers and emails, and Facebook friendings.
 
 
 -  2015, John Ellsworth, Unspeakable Prayers
 
Verb
friending
- present participle of friend