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voyaging, vbl. n.|ˈvɔɪɪdʒɪŋ|
[f. voyage v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb (now usually of journeying by sea).
1611Cotgr., Voyagement, a voyaging, trauelling, iourneying. 1647Hexham i, A viaging, een reysinge. 1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 8 He was Monarch of far more Territories than ever he touch'd at in all his Voyagings. 1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 165 Native of a port and given to voyaging. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. xvii. 182, I deemed it best to keep up the appearance of ordinary voyaging. 1889Clark Russell Marooned xiv. (1891) 97 The marine habits of thought I had carried away with me from my early voyagings.
attrib.1853Lynch Self-Improv. ii. 25 It is now hurrah! for outset on many a voyaging enterprise. 1891T. Hardy Tess xl, I have separated from my wife for personal, not voyaging, reasons.
b. transf. and fig.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. vii. vii, Our poor Convention, after such voyaging, just entering harbour, so to speak, has struck on the bar. 1842Kingsley Lett. (1878) I. 112 We will not listen when men tell us that we can reach Him by weary voyaging on the ocean of intellect. 1862G. Long tr. M. Aurelius' Thoughts ix. §30. 156 Look down from above on the countless herds of men and their countless solemnities, and the infinitely varied voyagings in storms and calms. |