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▪ I. reasoning, vbl. n.|ˈriːz(ə)nɪŋ|
[f. reason v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. reason, esp. the process by which one judgement is deduced from another or others which are given.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iv. 1046 (1018), I may wel maken..My resoninge of goddes purveyaunce. ― Boeth. v. pr. v. 131 (Camb. MS.) Yif þat wit and ymaginacion stryuen ayein resonynge. 1494Fabyan Chron. iv. lxix. 47 For resonyng and profe of this was after assygned vii. score Iewes. 1538Starkey England i. iv. 137 Hyt ys a commyn faute in resonyng, to lay a faute ther as non ys. 1587Golding De Mornay i, There is no reazoning against those which denie the Principles. 1643Milton Divorce Introd. (1851) 4 Who..make it their chief designe to envie and cry-down the industry of free reasoning. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 313 A little reasoning with them brought some of the men to their senses. 1781Cowper Table-t. 53 Such reasoning falls like an inverted cone, Wanting its proper base to stand upon. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt (1868) 29 The Rector was helped to this chain of reasoning by Harold's remarks.
b. With a and pl. An instance of this.
1552Edw. VI Jrnl., etc. (Roxb.) 457 The reasonings be in my deske. 1611Bible Luke ix. 46 There arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest. 1651Hobbes Govt. & Soc. ix. §1. 135 Socrates is a man, and therefore a living creature, is a right reasoning, and that most evident. a1720Sewel Hist. Quakers (1795) I. ii. 101 Several people accompanied him, and he had great reasonings with them. 1812L. Hunt in Examiner 14 Dec. 785/2 He would not enter into a reasoning on the subject. 1880L. Stephen Pope vii. 163 The reasonings in the Essay are confused, contradictory, and often childish.
c. attrib., as reasoning faculty, reasoning ground, reasoning power, reasoning thread.
1728Pope Dunc. i. 179 Or quite unravel all the reas'ning thread. 1775Harris Philos. Arrangem. Wks. (1841) 325 Of all the animals we see around us, man alone possesses the reasoning faculty. 1781Cowper Conversat. 431 The reasoning power vouchsafed of course inferred The power to clothe that reason with his word. 1875E. White Life in Christ i. i. 14 Such contradictory arguments as these, the reasoning-grounds..of two opposing schools.
▪ II. reasoning, ppl. a.|ˈriːz(ə)nɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That reasons, in senses of the vb.
1665Glanvill Def. Van. Dogm. 80 Thus was the reasoning World despoil'd of that Freedom which is the priviledge of Humane Nature. 1737Pope Hor. Epist. i. i. 185 That reas'ning, high, immortal Thing, Just less than Jove. 1781Cowper Hope 143 Then praise is heard instead of reasoning pride. 1821–2Shelley Chas. I, ii. 158 All that makes the age of reasoning man More memorable than a beast's. 1870J. H. Newman Gram. Assent i. iv. 91 After all, man is not a reasoning animal.
Hence ˈreasoningly adv.
1886H. James Bostonians III. iii. xxxvi. 111 ‘That's not the way,’ Verena went on, reasoningly. |