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▪ I. diˈverting, vbl. n.
[-ing1.]
The action of the verb divert; diversion. Also attrib.
1611Florio, Diuertita, a diuerting, a remouing. a1612Donne βιαθανατος (1644) 213 All darke and dangerous Secessions and divertings into points of our Freewill, and of Gods Destiny. 1617Hieron Wks. II. 237 To obtaine of God the diuerting or turning by of some great iudgements. 1681[see diversory n.]. 1895Daily Chron. 19 Jan. 5/5 The diverting of the water to the old workings.
▪ II. diˈverting, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That diverts or turns aside; distracting; amusing.
1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 224 To thrust in mens names and words..was unseasonable and diverting. 1700S. L. tr. C. Fryke's Voy. E. Ind. 168 Their Comedies..are very diverting. 1782Cowper (title) The Diverting History of John Gilpin. 1871Morley Voltaire (1886) 144. 1878 H. H. Gibbs Ombre 1 Ombre..the most diverting..of games.
Hence diˈvertingly adv.; diˈvertingness.
1697Collier Immor. Stage vi. (1730) 168 The Divertingness of it. 1701Strype Life Aylmer xiv. (R.), He..then added, divertingly, that this argument therefore arose of wrong understanding the word. 1837Fraser's Mag. XV. 339 Her sensibility appears to be strangely—we had almost said divertingly—acute. |