wronging

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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Wrong \Wrong\ (?; 115), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wronged; p. pr. & vb. n. Wronging.] [1913 Webster]

1.To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure. [1913 Webster]

He that sinneth . . . wrongeth his own soul.— Prov. viii. 36.[1913 Webster]

2.To impute evil to unjustly; as, if you suppose me capable of a base act, you wrong me. [1913 Webster]

I rather choose To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you, Than I will wrong such honorable men.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
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