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▪ I. quarrelling, vbl. n.|ˈkwɒrəlɪŋ|
[f. quarrel v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. quarrel.
1546Bale Eng. Votaries i. 72 They wolde..styll vexe hym with olde quarellynges. 1611Rich Honest. Age (Percy Soc.) 54 The mind is oppressed with idle thoughts which spurreth on the tongue to contentious quarrelling. a1715Burnet Own Time iii. (1724) I. 452 Seimour and he had fallen into some quarrellings. 1734T. Watt Vocab. Eng. Lat. 38 You are always making a Quarrelling about nothing. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt (1868) 30 There was no fear of family coolness or quarrelling on this side.
attrib.1625Massinger New Way v. i, Make not My house your quarrelling scene.
▪ II. ˈquarrelling, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That quarrels; quarrelsome.
1589Nashe Pref. Greene's Menaphon (Arb.) 13 That quarrelling kinde of verse. 1593Tell-Troth's N.Y. Gift 30 The quarreling mate shall not complaine. 1670Clarendon Ess. Tracts (1727) 166 A froward, proud and quarreling conscience. 1822B. Cornwall Two Dreams 11 The loud quarrelling elements cast out Their sheeted fires.
Hence † ˈquarrellingly adv. Obs.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxix. 11 They stryve with them quarrellingly, and wythout meeldnesse. 1586Holinshed Chron. Eng. III. 20/2 He caused the bishop to be sued, quarelinglie charging him that [etc.]. |