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▪ I. salving, vbl. n.1|ˈsɑːvɪŋ, ˈsælv-|
[f. salve v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of anointing with salve (lit. and fig.); healing as if with salve, soothing. † Also semi-concr., a healing application.
a1300Cursor M. 29020 Saluing þat es for þe fot es noght for mans heued bote. c1440York Myst. x. 334 Harke sone! sum saluyng of our sare. 1584Mirr. Mag. 24 For the saluynge of which, and all other Infirmyties, of the commonwealth, her Godly wisdome..established many Medicinable Lawes. 1587Golding De Mornay xii. (1592) 177 Hauing recourse..to searing, cutting, launcing, and sawuing of euery sore. 1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 330 Some waters are better..for..washing, brewing, salving, boyling of meat. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 1154 On the approach of winter, they are..brought home in order to undergo the operation of smearing or salving. 1867M. E. Herbert Cradle L. vii. 183 Though a Moslem he drinks wine, but says aloud for the salving of his conscience, ‘It is only sugar and water’. 1887Athenæum 3 Dec. 745/1 There is no commonplace salving of her wounds by the provision of an earl or a viscount in the third volume.
▪ II. † ˈsalving, vbl. n.2 Obs.
[f. salve v.2 + -ing1.]
In senses of the vb.
1575in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 369 Therwth a salving allwaies of y⊇ libertie of y⊇ Cittie. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. i. 20 Now therefore, Lady, rise out of your paine, And see the salving of your blotted name. 1656tr. Hobbes' Elem. Philos. (1839) 447 But how little soever some bodies may be, yet I will not suppose their quantity to be less than is requisite for the salving of the phenomena. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. Pref. 6 Epicurus..did by violence introduce Liberty of Will, into his Hypothesis; for the Salving whereof, he ridiculously devized, That his Third Motion of Atoms.
▪ III. salving, ppl. a.|ˈsɑːvɪŋ, ˈsælv-|
[f. salve v.1 + -ing2.]
Healing as with salve, soothing.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) III. xli. 242 This was what I returned, with warmth, and with a salving art, too. |