wronging in English

verb

1

act unjustly or dishonestly toward (someone).

please forgive me these things and the people I have wronged

verb

• ill-use, mistreat, do an injustice to, do wrong to, ill-treat, abuse, harm, hurt, injure
• malign, misrepresent, do a disservice to, impugn, defame, slander, libel

Use "wronging" in a sentence

1. Wronging the Ancientry elizajane

2. The neighbors know about his wronging her.

3. Examples: nobility and Ancientry of their houses, 1580; the Ancientry of the parish, 1589; cram full of Ancientry [‘antiques’], 1866; wronging the Ancientry, 1611

4. A shepherd in William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale wishes "there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the Ancientry, stealing, fighting."

5. Noun Ancientness; antiquity; qualities peculiar to that which is old.; noun Old people: as, “wronging the Ancientry,”; noun Ancient lineage; dignity of birth.; noun Something belonging or relating to ancient times.; from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

6. So there's a famous quote by Shakespeare from "The Winter's Tale" where he describes adolescence as follows: "I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting."