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wording, vbl. n.|ˈwɜːdɪŋ|
[f. word v. (or n.) + -ing1.]
1. Speaking, talking, utterance. Obs. or arch.
1604Dekker Honest Wh. Wks. 1873 II. 62 The Senate will leave wording presently. 1625Massinger New Way iii. ii, Marrall. Pray you a word Sir. Greed. No wording now. 1819Keats Otho ii. i, Fine wording, Duke! but words could never yet Forestall the fates. 1849Sears Regenerations iii. i. (1859) 126 The wording and rewording of liturgies is not prayer. 1850Bushnell God in Christ 159 They must have their reality to me in what they express when taken as the wording forth of God.
attrib.1860Swinburne Queen-Mother i. ii, All this wording-time I am not perfect where this wrong began.
†b. A saying, statement. Obs. rare.
1606Warner Alb. Eng. xiv. lxxxiii. 348 Old Wordings..prouing trew.
†2. Angry or abusive speech; ‘having words’ (see word n. 5). Obs.
1564Child-Marriages 129 In wordinge betwixe the mother of the said Isabell & the said Rafe, the said Rafe said to her, that ‘her doughter Isabell was a hoore and a thief’. 1594O. B. Quest. Profit. Concern. 13 She termeth..his outfacing & wording at me, audacitie and manly boldnesse. 1614Purchas Pilgrimage viii. viii. (ed. 2) 780 They are great gamsters, their play like that of Dice: in which they carrie themselues very patiently without swearing or wording.
3. The action of putting or condition of being put into words; composition or expression in language (spoken or written), esp. in reference to the words used; mode of speech, form of words, phrasing.
1649Milton Eikon. iv. 36 Tis beleev'd this wording was above his known stile and Orthographie. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 364 If constancy may be tainted with this selfishnesse (to use our new Wordings of old and general Actings). 1657Heylin Ecclesia Vind. Pref. c 1 b, The Directory which prescribes..the sense and scope..of the Prayers and other parts of publick Worship, doth in effect leave nothing to the Ministers spirit but the wording of it. 1687Ld. Sunderland in Magd. Coll. (O.H.S.) 169 His Majesty leaves the wording of it to you. 1718Breval Play is the Plot ii. i. 18 Take me Pen, Ink, and Paper, and write him a Letter of my Wording. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. Introd. 7 Some forms necessary in the wording of last wills and testaments. Ibid. vi. 228 This is the form of the coronation oath, as it is now prescribed..: but the wording of it was changed at the revolution, because..the oath itself had been framed in doubtful words and expressions. 1818Keats Endym. iv. 962 Things for which no wording can be found. 1837Dickens Pickw. xxxiv, I entreat the attention of the jury to the wording of this document. 1839Hallam Lit. Eur. iv. vii. §43 His plain and manly sentences often give us pleasure by the wording alone. 1865M. Arnold Ess. Crit. x. (1875) 411 The clear thought which is..at the bottom of that troubled wording. 1882Proctor Fam. Science Studies 43, I have altered the wording..in such a way as to avoid the use of technical expressions. 1913Spectator 26 July 148/1 The meaning..is plain, though the wording is, to say the least,..involved.
4. A set of written words, an inscription. rare.
1908Times 28 Jan. 4/6 A box..with..the well-known Havana indications, including the lock-label with the Spanish wording.
So † ˈwording ppl. a. (a) consisting in (mere) words, verbal; (b) using many or empty words, wordy; (c) characterized by angry words, contentious, quarrelsome.
1601Cornwallis Ess. ii. xxx. (1631) 48 Patrone of the vulgar whose wording favour..hath such an operation with mans frailtie. 1615J. Stephens Satyr. Ess. 315 It is probable she was begotten by some..wording Poet, for she consists of as many fearefull sounds without science. 1682Bunyan Holy War To Rdr. (1684) A 3 b, In Parleys, or in wording Jars. |