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▪ I. rending, vbl. n.|ˈrɛndɪŋ|
[f. rend v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of the vb.; also with a and pl., an instance of this.
c1400Chaucer's Knt.'s T. 1976 (Harl. MS.), At troye allas þe pite þat was þere, Cracchyng of cheekes, rendyng eek of here. c1440Promp. Parv. 429/2 Rendynge a-sundyr, laceracio. 1530Palsgr. 262/1. 1635 Swan Spec. M. v. §2 (1643) 117 A noise like to the rending of broad cloth. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 151 The vilest Heresies and rendings of the Church. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Arsenick, It causes great Pains, Rendings,..violent Vomitings. 1813Bakewell Introd. Geol. (1815) 241 Virgil refers to the rending of rocks as one of the common effects of lightning. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 370 The rending or otherwise yielding of the coats of the vessel was accompanied by severe pain.
attrib.1832Quarterly Jrnl. Agric. III. 651 The next proceeding [in hurdle-making] is rending the different pieces: this is done at the rending frame.
b. A rent piece or fragment. In quot. fig.
1859I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 234 Men who..bring with them bits and rendings of their academic whims.
▪ II. ˈrending, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That rends: a. In transitive senses.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. i. met. i, For lo Rendyng Muses of poetes enditen to me thinges to ben writen. 1683Tryon Way to Health 402 Being of a terrible, rending, tearing, devilish, fierce Nature. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xxxii. 270 Their stinging Acrimony, rending Nitrosity. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) IV. 79 He speaks peace to the storm of rending passions. 1842Manning Serm. vii. (1848) I. 101 We have no rending choice to make. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 47 It [anginal pain] may be most acute and agonizing, of a rending character.
b. In intransitive senses.
1718Rowe tr. Lucan i. 289 Darts the swift Lightning from the rending cloud. 1758Beattie Elegy 82 O happy stroke, that..Darts through the rending gloom the blaze of day. 1839–52Bailey Festus 58 The world shall stand still with a rending jar. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xxxii. 120 With a creaking and rending sound. |