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▪ I. ˈruining, vbl. n.
[f. ruin v. + -ing1.]
The action of bringing to ruin; the result of this.
1603Drayton Bar. Wars i. liv, The Marchers..now perceiue their dilatory stay To be the causer of their ruining. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 71 They must..dispose their own subjects to the ruining and destroying of one another. 1820Shelley Witch Atl. lxx, She Restored the embalmers' ruining. 1891Scrivener Fields & Cities 133 Large holdings have been the ruining of Italy and her provinces.
▪ II. ˈruining, ppl. a.
[f. ruin v. + -ing2.]
1. Productive of ruin; destructive.
c1611Chapman Iliad v. 103 When Pandarus..beheld his ruining hand..make lanes through every band. 1667J. Flavel Saint Indeed (1754) 36 God will preserve your souls from the ruining power of temptation. 1693R. Fleming Disc. of Earthq. 100 An Adversary who..hath had such prevailing Successes, to carry on a ruining and judicial work. a1732T. Boston Crook in Lot (1805) 124, I fear a ruining design of providence against me therein. 1733E. Erskine Serm. Wks. 1871 II. 162 Ruining judgments are deferred or removed. 189.L. Johnson In Falmouth Harbour 24 Far From this pure rest, the Land's drear End, And ruining waters, are.
2. Falling into ruin.
1844Mrs. Browning Drama of Exile 1939 The avalanches of the ruining worlds. 1896Swinburne Tale of Balen iv. vii, Like jarring steel on ruining walls, So rang their meeting then. |