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▪ I. fluttering, vbl. n.|ˈflʌtərɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. flutter in various senses; an instance of the same.
1382Wyclif Ps. liv [lv]. 23 [22] He shal not ȝiue in to with oute ende flotering [Vulg. fluctuationem] to the riȝt⁓wise. 14..Prose Legends in Anglia VIII. 185 Drowned in þe floteryngis of þis lyfe. 1627–61Feltham Resolves i. xi. 200 The Bates and Flutterings of a Conscience within. 1719De Foe Crusoe (1840) I. xix. 341 It is impossible to express the flutterings of my..heart. 1759R. Smith Harmonics (ed. 2) 97 The flutterings and the beats of a tempered consonance. 1830Tennyson Miller's Dau. 153, I watch'd the little flutterings, The doubt my mother would not see. 1832Lytton Eugene A. ii. iv, No fluttering of manner betrayed that he [etc.].
▪ II. fluttering, ppl. a.|ˈflʌtərɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That flutters, in various senses of the vb.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iii. metr. ix. 68 (Camb. MS.) To compowne werk of floterynge matere. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. iii. 10 Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow In his light winges, is lifted up to skie. 1625Gill Sacr. Philos. iv. 43 That fluttering distinction..will not helpe. 1762Falconer Shipwr. ii. 198 The fluttering sails expand. 1834Medwin Angler in Wales II. 315 The thick-heaved breath And..fluttering pulse of death. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola ii. i, A large..mulberry-tree..was now sending its last fluttering leaves in at the open doorways.
b. Untidy. (Cf. flutter n. 2 b.)
c1830Mrs. Sherwood Houlston Tracts III. lxvii. 8 She would idle..and was very fluttering with her things.
Hence ˈflutteringly adv., in a fluttering manner.
1819J. H. Wiffen Aonian Hours (1820) 33 O'er her young more flutteringly to brood. 1859Masson Brit. Novelists iv. 278 Of old it came flutteringly through prophets. 1861G. Meredith E. Harrington II. xi. 197 Mrs. Hawkshaw began flutteringly to apologise. |