Definition of "levanting" [levanting]

• Present participle of levant. (verb)

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• "One day we shall hear of one or other levanting; an event at which, not being sporting men, we shall not break our hearts."
• "Her unfortunate affliction precluded her from all hope of levanting with a lover."
• "Gradually an intimacy sprang up between these two, until at length the diabolical plot was hatched of murdering Chin and levanting with his goods."