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▪ I. marrying, vbl. n.|ˈmærɪɪŋ|
[f. marry v. + -ing1.]
a. The action of the verb marry. Also marrying-in, -out. Also transf. and fig.
a1300Cursor M. 10657 Bot maria wald na mariing, Bot maiden liue til hir ending. 1549T. Hoby Trav. (1902) 17 Venice..they have a wonderous great ceremonie abowt the marying of the see. 1579E. K. Gloss. Spenser's Sheph. Cal. Mar. 97 He was busie aboute the marying of Polyxena. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 716 All now was turn'd to jollitie.. Marrying or prostituting, as befell. 1891Athenæum 17 Jan. 86/3 There is plenty of love and some marrying. 1917B. Grimshaw Nobody's Island v. 61 Such greens, such blues, such marryings of both, not brush and colour, nor pen and ink, could paint. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 528/1 Marrying, the process of lashing poles together in scaffold erection. Ibid., Marrying (Cinema), the printing of the mute negative and the negative sound⁓track on the release print. 1952Economist 8 Nov. 401/1 The marrying of reactors with power generators. 1964Gould & Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 239/2 Endogamy and exogamy are processes of marrying-in and marrying-out. 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 6 July 775/2 A drama of ‘marrying out’ (a painful process which one does not have to be Jewish to experience).
b. attrib. as in marrying age, marrying day; † marrying ring, a wedding-ring.
1504in Bury Wills (Camden) 98 Item I bequeth to our Lady of Walsyngham..my maryeng ryng. 1546J. Heywood Prov. (1867) 15 Sens our one mariyng or marryng daie. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 240 b, Aboute her mariyng ryng was written: God sende me wel to kepe. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey II. 120 Daughters..when they reach nineteen..are looked upon as almost past the marrying age.
▪ II. marrying, ppl. a.|ˈmærɪɪŋ|
[f. marry v. + -ing2.]
a. Inclined or likely to marry.
b. That performs the marriage ceremony.
1778F. Burney Evelina lxxv, I think Miss Anville the loveliest of her sex; and, were I a marrying man, she, of all the women I have seen, I would fix upon for a wife. 1855Dickens Dorrit ii. xv, She had not thought Edmund a marrying man. 1861Thackeray Four Georges i, Duke George, the marrying duke. 1891E. Kinglake Australian at H. 62 If a minister knowingly marries a minor without consent of guardians he is liable to a fine of {pstlg}300... These marrying gentry are not much given to inquiring into the circumstances under which their clients come to them. |