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Webster 1828 Edition

ppr.

Taking by consent to use and return, or to return its equivalent; taking what belongs to another to use as one's own; copying; assuming; imitating.

Noun.

The act of borrowing. [See the verb.]

borrowing

borrowing ‎(countable and uncountable, plural borrowings)

An instance of borrowing something.
- Horace Binney
  Subscriptions, borrowings of money, taxings of the citizens and their property, may all be valid, as operations by virtue of laws for the government of the City […]
(linguistics) A borrowed word, adopted from a foreign language; loanword.

loanword — see loanword