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paying

/ˈpeɪ.ɪŋ/ noun A2
  1. payment

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“Here you can get anything you want; by paying for it, of course, as among honest folk.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1078 · C1
Accept my thanks for the compliment you are paying me.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 123 · B2
Bennet wished to understand by it that he thought of paying his addresses to one of her younger girls, and Mary might have been prevailed on to accept him.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 145 · B2
Collins met for breakfast a few minutes before the others appeared; and he took the opportunity of paying the parting civilities which he deemed indispensably necessary.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 249 · B2

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