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▪ I. wounding, vbl. n.|ˈwuːndɪŋ|
[f. wound v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb; the fact of being wounded. Also fig.
13..K. Alis. 3737 (Laud MS.), Riȝth also he was arise, Of his woundyng he was agrise. a1400–50Wars Alexander 4795 Þare was hurling on hiȝe,..Quat of wrestling of wormes, & wonding of kniȝtis. a1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 52 If any man..be smyten in any party of þe legge violently and without wondyng of þe skynne. 1518Sel. Cases Star Chamber (Selden) II. 140, I ame Indytyd thear for beatyng and wondyng of one John Holtt. 1581A. Hall Iliad i. 2 Nine dayes Apollo bent, and shot, and them with wounding sped. 1633P. Fletcher Piscat. Eclog. v. xvi, How can thy eye most sharp in wounding be, In seeing dull? 1749Fielding Tom Jones iii. iv, An Indictment of Assault, Battery, and Wounding, was instantly prefered against Tom. 1799W. Nicol Pract. Planter 225 All wounding, in pruning, should be performed on, or towards the extremities of boughs which [etc.]. 1842Manning Serm. xviii. (1848) 267 The sharp inward wounding of the soul. 1890Retrospect. Med. CII. 275 All kinds of head injury from slight concussion to compound comminuted fractures of the skull with wounding of the brain substance.
2. = wound n. 1.
1581A. Hall Iliad iv. 65 That this your wounding got, Which irkes you so, he should delay. 1595Markham Sir R. Grinvile (Arb.) 78 At length, the Maister..hath procurd The Knight discend, to haue his woundings curd. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 7 The great physician of sin-sick souls..had healed my own woundings.
▪ II. wounding, ppl. a.|ˈwuːndɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That wounds or injures; capable of causing hurt or pain. lit. and fig.
a1225Ancr. R. 60 Mid spere of wundinde word..weorreð lecherie..wið þe lefdi of chastete. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. lxiv. iv, Their own tongues to their own woe Shall all their wounding sharpnes bend. 1596Edward III, v. 138 Crosbowes and deadly wounding darts. 1638Wotton in L. P. Smith Life & Lett. (1907) II. 384 You have left in him illos aculeos,..for you are indeed a wounding man, as my servant Nicholas saith. 1648J. Quarles Fons Lachrym. 13 Oh what a wounding sorrow 'tis to think How all will be destroyd. 1718Prior Solomon iii. 360 His Journey to pursue, Where wounding Thorns, and cursed Thistles grew. 1820Shelley Prometh. Unb. i. i. 271 Forms Of furies, driving by upon the wounding storms. 1825T. Hook Sayings Ser. ii. Passion & Princ. ix. III. 176 To a simple unsophisticated girl, this must surely have been cutting and wounding. 1915F. S. Oliver Ordeal by Battle iii. i. 181 The result must necessarily be wounding to the credit of popular institutions all the world over.
Hence ˈwoundingly adv.
1887Temple Bar May 144 What she had said to him gently, was said now roughly, woundingly. 1919J. D. Beresford Jervaise Comedy xv. 272 What she implied was woundingly true of that old self of mine which had so recently come under my observation and censure. |