1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Obiectinge, obiectus, obiectio.

a1750 A. Hill Snake in Grass (1760) 92 Thy impertinence to us Poets, and the prepost'rous blind talent thou hast at objecting, carry marks of the place thou belong'st to.

1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. xl. 342 ‘What care I about their objecting?’ said Caleb, with a sturdiness which he was apt to show when he had an opinion.

1979 M. Kolbenschlag Kiss Sleeping Beauty Good-bye 9 Questioning, objecting, arguing, conjecturing on alternative possibilities is, at best, uncultivated–at worst, discouraged and even punished.

1652 Mercurius Politicus No. 92. 1461 We may (I suppose) safely conclude against all objecting Monarchists and Royallists; that a Free-State..hath bin the only preservative of Liberty and Property.

1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa iii. 220 Since hir actions so evidently demonstrated that Truth, I ought to impute hir objecting Crymes to my Charge.

1792 T. Paine Rights of Man: Pt. Second iv. 48 After the debate in the Massachusetts convention was closed, and the vote taken, the objecting members rose, and declared, ‘That though they had argued and voted against it,..they should give it the same practical support as if they had voted for it.’

1852 S. P. Tregelles Def. Authenticity Daniel (1864) 225 The notion of objecting hypothetists..is singularly at variance with the facts of the case.

1886 E. Lynn Linton Paston Carew III. ii. 32 Petrarca had..praised Yetta Carew with dangerous fervency to his objecting Laura.

1912 Dict. National Biogr. 1901–11 III. 215/2 His judgment in favour of..giving the property of the Free Church to the objecting minority, is a masterly statement of that side of the question.

1989 D. Dunnett Race of Scorpions 390 The air was filled with the clamour of autumn:..the rumble of flint-studded boards driven over the threshing-ground. The objecting bray of working donkeys.