mentioningn.
/ˈmɛnʃn̩ɪŋ/, /ˈmɛnʃənɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmɛn(t)ʃ(ə)nɪŋ/ The action or an act of mentioning something.
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the mind > language > speech > [noun] > commenting or mentioning
mentionc1300
remembrancea1393
meaninga1400
mention-making1534
mentioning1565
commemoration1576
commenting1597
voicinga1626
memoration1627
citation1640
naming1677
observing1719
commentation1833
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > [noun] > mention > act of making
mention-making1534
mentioning1565
1565 W. Allen Def. & Declar. Doctr. Purgatory xvii. f. 283 v The peculiare mentioning or plaine rehersal of suche persons as may be burdened with those sinnes.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 48 The men..both dismaied at the very mentioning of the matter,..said [etc.].
1654 E. Wolley tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Curia Politiæ 104 The very mentioning and remembrance thereof, may amaze with horrour.
1684 J. Locke Let. Dec. in J. Locke & E. Clarke Corr. (1927) 116 Your being out of town and in my ramble made me forget the mentioning to you the [matter] of the money.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. x. 220 You have made my Blood run cold with the very mentioning the Top of that Mountain. View more context for this quotation
1818 Ld. Byron Beppo lxxxii. 42 Nauseous words past mentioning or bearing.
1866 G. Stephens Old-Northern Runic Monuments I. p. viii Many such mentionings occur in Anglo-Scandic skinbooks.
1901 Notes & Queries 15 June 470/1 I find many mentionings of Haydons in the parish registers of Hinton Blewitt.
1990 Profession (Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer.) 18/2 A given piece of discourse is understood as being not a use of that discourse but a mentioning of it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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