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▪ I. murmuring, vbl. n.|ˈmɜːmərɪŋ|
[f. murmur v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. murmur; an instance of this.
c1384Chaucer H. Fame iii. 434, I herd a noyse aprochen blyve That ferd as been don in an hive..Ryghte suche a maner murmuryng For al the world hyt semed me. 1515Barclay Eglogues ii. (1570) B iv, One reacheth the bread with grutch and murmuring. 1535Coverdale Phil. ii. 14 Do all thinges without murmurynges, and disputinges. c1550Lloyd Treas. Health, Aphor. a viij, If they which haue certayne murmuryng and wynd in theyr belyes, haue greate paynes in the loynes, they shal haue moyst deiections. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. i. 23 But with his clownish hands their tender wings He brusheth oft, and oft doth mar their murmurings. a1639Wotton Life Dk. Buckhm. (1642) 22 He found..but smothered murmurings for the losse of so many gallant Gentlemen. 1737Gentl. Mag. VII. 598/2 The Attempting to enforce any such Thing by a Law, would raise a most general Discontent and Murmuring. 1804J. Grahame Sabbath 426 The murmuring So gentle of the brook. 1906Edin. Rev. July 123 The night is full of..the murmurings of spring.
▪ II. murmuring, ppl. a.|ˈmɜːmərɪŋ|
[f. murmur v. + -ing2.]
That murmurs, in various senses.
1530Palsgr. 319/1 Murmuryng, grutchynge as folkes that be nat contented, murmuratif. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. v. 30 A gentle streame, whose murmuring wave did play Emongst the pumy stones. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iv. iii. 80 The ranke of Oziers, by the murmuring streame. 1645Evelyn Diary June, The..rock out of which Moses brought water to the murmuring Israelites. 1665Dryden Ind. Emp. iv. iii. (Song), Hark, hark, the Waters fall, fall, fall: And with a murmuring Sound..To gentle Slumbers call. 1699Garth Dispensary ii. 2 The ev'ning Breeze Begun to whisper through the murm'ring Trees. 1799Sheridan Pizarro iv. i, O'er her unshelled brood the murmuring ringdove sits. 1863Woolner My Beautiful Lady 119 Where the summer lay On honeyed murmuring limes.
Hence ˈmurmuringly adv.
1611Cotgr., Murmurantement, murmuringly. 1843Tait's Mag. X. 558 The wing-stirr'd air shook murmuringly. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. V. x. 443 Greene..wrote murmuringly to Washington, that the fort might have kept the enemy at bay. |