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▪ I. ˈwending, vbl. n. Obs.
[f. wend v. + -ing1.]
†1. The action of turning or changing; a change or turn. Obs.
c897ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xlii. 306 Hit ᵹedeð hit self him selfum suiðe unᵹelic for ðære ᵹelomlican wendinge. a1050Liber Scintill. xi. (1889) 63 Earfoðe ys færlic wendincg [L. permutatio]. c1440Pallad. on Husb. ii. 12 But at the weendyng [L. ubi ad versuram venerint] slake The yook, thyn oxon nekkis forto cole.
2. The action of going; esp. a going away, departure.
13..K. Alis. 920 Nis in this world so siker thyng So is deth, to olde and yyng! The time is nygh of heore wendyng! 13..Guy Warw. 1218 He goþ him to his fader þo, Þat for his wending was ful wo. c1340Hampole Psalter civ. 36 Egipt was fayn in thaire wendynge [L. in profectione eorum]. c1374Chaucer Troylus iv. 1630 And by my þryft my wendynge out of Troye A-noþer day shal torne vs alle to Ioye. ― Boeth. ii. pr. i. (1868) 32 If þou wilt write a lawe of wendyng and of dwellyng to fortune. c1430Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 9967 She went ageyn with hir meigne; The third day aftir hir wending, [Generides] ther was crovned king.
†3. A journey. Obs.
13..K. Alis. 3284 (Laud MS.), And þer he ordeyneþ his wendyng Toward Darrye þe riche kyng. 1338R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 207 Jon dred þat wendyng, to France wild he nouht. Ibid. 260 Þei hed redy wendyng, at Douer þei toke lond. [1878Seeley Stein II. 489 Accordingly appeared ‘My Wendings and Wanderings with the Imperial Baron’.]
▪ II. ˈwending, ppl. a.
[f. wend v.]
Going, proceeding. (In comb., as backward-wending.)
1896A. Austin England's Darling i. i, Egbert's true grand⁓child..backward-wending pilgrims say, was seen [etc.]. |