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▪ I. ˈurging, vbl. n.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb; an instance of this.
1590Shakes. Com. Err. v. i. 359 Her vrging of her wracke at sea. 1615Hieron Wks. I. 606 It is by such vrgings as this, which..it pleaseth Him to make effectuall. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxv. 133 [It] is manifest enough, by the long and vehement urging. 1721Bailey, Importunity, an eager pressing or urging. 1838Lytton Alice x. iv, After repeated conferences and urgings. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xlv, A painful urging of something vague and difficult. 1897Rhoscomyl White Rose Arno 82 One whose vigorous urgings to immediate action had [etc.].
▪ II. ˈurging, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. That serves as a motive or impelling cause; that constrains, or actuates; inciting, spurring, stimulating, strongly prompting; compelling.
1612Selden Illustr. Drayton's Poly-olb. vi. 106 If it be the same with Lyra, as some think, although urging reason and authority are to the contrary. 1668Owen Indwell. Sin ii. 16 It is..an inbred, working, impelling, urging Law. 1678Dryden Limberham i. i, How stand thy Affections to her, thou lusty Rogue? Wood. All o'fire: A most urging Creature! 1723Pres. St. Russia II. 273 Causes..weighty and urging enough for Russia to begin a War. 1728Swift Let. to Abp. of Dublin ⁋22 We shall..sacrifice all honesty to the present urging advantage. 1802Wolcot (P. Pindar) Isl. Innocence 63 The sportive fry,..leaping oft as urging hunger calls, Meet the dropp'd crumb. 1870Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1871) 322 It is a useful urging force.
b. dial. Of words: Taunting, irritating.
1655N. Riding Rec. (1887) V. 191 A Sumersides yeoman [tried] for giving scandallous, urginge and provoking words.
c. Strongly operative or active.
1658Sir T. Browne Hydriot. iii. 43 How slender a masse will remain upon an open and urging Fire of the carnall composition.
†2. Characterized by urgency; urgent. Obs.
1647Sir C. Cotterell Davila's Hist. Fr. I. 49 It would be very easie, this urging necessity once past, to moderate..the..power of the Duke of Guise. 1683Howe Union among Prot. Wks. 1863 IV. 261 The case was at that time urging and important. 1683Kennett Erasm. on Folly 150 If at any time some urging occasions require them to become entangled in secular affairs.
Hence ˈurgingly adv.
c1882‘Mark Twain’ Speeches (1923) 104, I say it beseechingly, urgingly. 1893Temple Bar XCVII. 524 She instinctively and urgingly clapped her hands to a faster tune. |