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▪ I. menacing, vbl. n. Now rare.|ˈmɛnəsɪŋ|
[f. menace v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb menace; threatening; menace.
1352Minot Poems i. 49 Ma manasinges ȝit haue thai maked. 1451in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 330 For the meanashing done in the Maire [h]is presennce, that he wolde kyll and take certain men. 1533Bellenden Livy ii. xvii. (S.T.S.) I. 197 Howbeit þow was full of mynassing [v.r. minissing]. 1549Compl. Scot. xi. 24 The thretnyng ande menassing of Gode contrar obstinat, vicius pepil. 1656Artif. Handsom. 66 These..fall to cavillings and menacings. 1866Carlyle Inaug. Addr. 199 Tell them..to disregard..the temporary noises, menacings, and deliriums.
▪ II. menacing, ppl. a.|ˈmɛnəsɪŋ|
[-ing2.]
That menaces or threatens; threatening.
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Heb. 19 To heare these manassyng wordes of the prophecie. 1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 149 He mooveth the King by minacing letters to admit Stephan. 1774Burke Sp. Amer. Tax. Sel. Wks. I. 134 There were in both Houses new and menacing appearances. 1867M. E. Herbert Cradle L. viii. 212 The population..gathered in menacing attitude. |