mortgaging

noun

1. The act by which something is mortgaged.

   “Her road had again seemed to stretch out endless, she imagined that there might be hundreds and hundreds of such things that Edward was concealing from her – that they might necessitate more mortgagings, more pawnings of bracelets, more and always more horrors.”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of mortgage