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▪ I. consuming, vbl. n.|kənˈsjuːmɪŋ|
[f. as consumer + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. consume; burning up, using up; wasting, spending; destroying.
1538Starkey England i. iii. 96 The consumyng of gold upon postys and wallys. 1544Supplic. Hen. VIII (1871) 52 There is noo ende of consumynge of substaunce. 1618Bolton Florus ii. xvi. 140 The remayne of these consummings. a1631Donne in Select. (1840) 96 A consuming of the enemy, not a weakening only. 1864Swinburne Atalanta 1951 My name that was a healing, it is changed. My name is a consuming.
▪ II. conˈsuming, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. Burning up, wasting, destroying, etc.
1535Coverdale Ps. xvii[i]. 8 A consumynge fyre. 1578Lyte Dodoens i. lvi. 83 Fretting and consuming sores. 1666Dryden Ann. Mirab. Ded. (Globe) 37 A consuming pestilence, and a more consuming fire. 1863Kinglake Crimea (1876) I. xvii. 378 The consuming evil of a vast standing army.
2. Enduring consumption, wasting, or combustion.
1699Capt. Cowley Voy. (1729) 14 A very sick ship, no man being free from the scurvy, and in a consuming condition. 1821Shelley Hellas 507 Our..path..Was beacon'd..By our consuming transports.
Hence conˈsumingly adv., conˈsumingness.
a1542Wyatt in Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 59, I dye, though not incontinent, By processe, yet consumingly. 1662J. Sparrow tr. Behmen's Rem. Wks., Consid. upon Stiefel 23 The Soul..giveth forth out of the Consumingnesse..the High Light. 1683J. Pordage Myst. Div. 118 This Fire-essence..in its Fierceness, Consumingness, and self-elevation. 1875McCosh Scot. Philos. xvii. 110 He is consumingly earnest in visiting. |