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▪ I. cheering, vbl. n.|ˈtʃɪərɪŋ|
[f. cheer v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. cheer in various senses: e.g. † entertainment, gladdening, applauding.
c1449Pecock Repr. iii. xiv. 371 The ouerplus..is spend..upon knyȝtis..into her honest chering and weel fare. 1551Robinson tr. More's Utop. ii. v, For the cheringe of the companye. 1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 319 Onely at certaine great feastes and cheerings. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Caresse, chearing, welcomming, making much of. 1634Milton Comus 348 'Twould be some Solace yet, some little Cheering. 1742Richardson Pamela IV. 135 Worthy of the Company and Chearings of three such Friends. 1810Scott Lady of L. iii. xvi, To us comes no cheering, To Duncan no morrow. 1861M. E. Braddon Trail Serpent vi. vii, Three cheers for the happy pair! At length the cheering is over.
▪ II. cheering, ppl. a.|ˈtʃɪərɪŋ|
[f. cheer v. + -ing2.]
That cheers, in various senses of the vb.
1583Stanyhurst æneid IV. 109 (Arb.) Seas ringing with cheering clamorus hoyssayle. 1647Crashaw Poems (1652) 169 Springs of joy from whose all-cheering ray The fair stars fill their weakful fires. 1796Stedman Surinam I. i. 14, I now had recourse..to a chearing glass of claret. 1835Browning Paracelsus iv. Wks. I. 141 A cheering promise Of better things to come. 1839Thirlwall Greece III. xxvi. 449 The martial pomp, the cheering crowds. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 119 The aspect of affairs was, on the whole, cheering. |