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PENNING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of creating written worksplay

Example:

it was a matter of disputed authorship

Synonyms:

authorship; composition; penning; writing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("penning" is a kind of...):

verbal creation (creating something by the use of speech and language)

Domain member category:

script (write a script for)

write out; write up (put into writing; write in complete form)

cite; reference (refer to)

annotate; footnote (add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments)

ghost; ghostwrite (write for someone else)

co-author (be a co-author on (a book, a paper))

author (be the author of)

draft; outline (draw up an outline or sketch for something)

adopt; dramatise; dramatize (put into dramatic form)

write copy (write for commercial publications)

rewrite (rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose)

dash off; fling off; knock off; scratch off; toss off (write quickly)

paragraph (write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher)

profile (write about)

write about; write of; write on (write about a particular topic)

compose; indite; pen; write (produce a literary work)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "penning"):

adoxography (fine writing in praise of trivial or base subjects)

drafting (writing a first version to be filled out and polished later)

dramatisation; dramatization (conversion into dramatic form)

fabrication; fictionalisation; fictionalization (writing in a fictional form)

historiography (the writing of history)

metrification (writing a metrical composition (or the metrical structure of a composition))

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)

Derivation:

pen (produce a literary work)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb pen

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