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trowing, vbl. n. Obs. or arch.|ˈtrəʊɪŋ|
[f. trow v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb trow; belief; faith, creed; opinion, notion, idea. † to trowing, to be believed, worthy of belief (cf. to trow, trow v. 3 c).
a1300Cursor M. 25088 (Cott.) To haf wit santes communing; Þis es a pointe of vr truing [Gött. truyng, Fairf. trowing]. 1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 498 For whan þou trowyst yn a fals þyng Þe deuyl hyt shewyþ for þat trowyng. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) III. 401 Nectanabus seide þis sawe, and was a wicche, and þerfore it is nevere þe bettre to trowynge. Ibid. V. 89 So seiþ martilogie, þat is more to trowynge [L. credendum] þan cronicles of auctours þat beeþ nouȝt i-knowe. Ibid. VI. 195 It is nouȝt to trowynge [L. opinandum] þat þis Iohn is Iohn the Ermyte. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxxiv. 154 Þ ai be of diuerse lawes and diuerse trowyngs. c1449Pecock Repr. i. i. (Rolls) 5 Thre trowingis or opinions ben causis..of manie..errouris. 1491Caxton Vitas Patr. i. c. (W. de W. 1495) 131 b/2 By the thynges passed he had some trowynge of those that were to come. c1570in Redforde Play Wit & Sc. (Shaks. Soc.) 57 Ever in trowing and never in knowinge.
So † ˈtrowing ppl. a. Obs., believing; in first quot. as n. one who believes.
a1300Cursor M. 18719 (Cott.) Þe truand [Fairf. trawande] and þe baptist bath Þai sal be saue. c1400Apol. Loll. 61 Crist is end of þe lawe to riȝtfulnes to ilk man trowing. 1483Cath. Angl. 394/2 Trowinge, credulus. |