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▪ I. loitering, vbl. n.|ˈlɔɪtərɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. loiter in its various senses. † In early use, vagrancy, vagabondage.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. v. 188 Þer was lauȝwhing and lotering and ‘let go þe cuppe’. 1530Palsgr. 240/2 Loyteryng, trvandise. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) K vij, A man giuen to exercises is vertuouse, and one giuen to leutrynges is a viciouse person. 1585C. Fetherstone tr. Calvin's Comm. Acts xxiii. 13 When God calleth vs expresly, our loitring is without excuse. 1612Brinsley Lud. Lit. xxv. (1627) 270 And to see that there be no intermission, or loytering in any fourme, if the master be away. a1718Penn Maxims Wks. (1726) I. 854 Nor is he a good Servant..that connives at other's Loyterings. 1822W. Irving Braceb. Hall i. 7 Should I..in the course of my loiterings..see..anything curious. 1847–8H. Miller First Impr. xiii. (1857) 212 Opportunities..which loiterings by the..road-sides present. 1889Browning Imperante Augusto 162 No loitering, or be sure you taste the lash.
†b. attrib.
1642Milton Apol. Smect. xi. Wks. 1851 III. 312 Were it not better to take it away soone after, as we do loitering books..from children. 1644― Areop. (Arb.) 64 The helps of Breviaries, synopses, and other loitering gear.
▪ II. loitering, ppl. a.|ˈlɔɪtərɪŋ|
[f. loiter v. + -ing2.]
That loiters or idles; in early use, that leads a vagabond life.
a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) L iv b, These lewtryng theues, whyche wyl not labour by daie. 1581Nowell & Day in Confer. i. (1584) F ij b, I haue bene..a loytering labourer in the Lords vineyarde. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 210 A company of loitring companions. 1671Clarendon Dialogues Tracts (1727) 346 There is no temper so much to be despised as a loitering lazy nature. 1712Steele Spect. No. 491 ⁋1 After an Hour spent in this loitering way of Reading. 1784Cowper Task iii. 832 Herds Of fluttering, loitering, cringing..vagrants. 1791–2Wordsw. Descr. Sk. 89 The loitering traveller hence, at evening, sees From rock-hewn steps the sail between the trees. 1847Emerson Poems, Musketaquid, Loiter willing by yon loitering stream. 1865J. H. Ingraham Pillar of Fire (1872) 110 No loitering step was permitted by the overseers.
Hence ˈloiteringly adv., in a loitering manner; in early use, † like a vagabond. ˈloiteringness, the quality of being inclined to loiter.
1547Act 1 Edw. VI, c. 3 §1 The said parsone so living Idelye and loyteringlie. a1617Bayne Lect. (1634) 136 Not looking that loyteringly it should be atchieved. 1836New Monthly Mag. XLVI. 43 He..strolled loiteringly on. 1850Lynch Theo. Trin. vii. 135 Like a first violet of spring, Trembling downwards loiteringly. 1868J. H. Stirling in N. Brit. Rev. XLIX. 364 That inertia, that lingeringness and loiteringness, that are not unfrequent in Browning. |