1436 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1835) IV. 352 (MED) The King must..desire the aide and helpe of his trewe subgittes..for..resisting of the maliciouse purpose of his enemys.

1482 Monk of Evesham 89 Chesyng rather to dyssymylle..than by her blamyng and resysting stere and moue agenste hem the wrathe..of suche euyl dysposyd persons.

a1500 in Trans. Royal Soc. Lit. (1905) 27 128 (MED) By thy holsome doctryne and benefyȝttes and strenght of resistyng that thou graunted not to thyn enemyes, haue mercy on vs.

1558 C. Goodman How Superior Powers 123 There is nothing in this saying..which can condemne lawfull resisting of vngodlie Rulers.

1608 M. Fotherby Foure Serm. iv. 95 Which preuaricating kind of speaking of the truth, is..nothing els but a resisting of the truth.

a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) ii. iv. §10 The devill is overcome by resisting, but the world, and the flesh by running away.

1696 C. Hopkins Neglected Virtue i. 8 There's no resisting of an adverse Fate.

1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xvi. 86 This Passion had been heighten'd by my resisting of it.

1770 H. Brooke Fool of Quality V. xvii. 159 Here has been a large body of soldiers sent for them, so that there was no resisting.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality II. vi. 101 Our auld leddy wad hae ca'd that a resisting o' the king's authority.

1874 J. R. Macduff Gates of Prayer 72 Prepare me for the resisting of every temptation and for the endurance of every trial.

1923 Times 26 Oct. 14/4 The second was the resisting of the setting up of new tariff barriers and impediments to trade.

1968 R. Moody Horse of Different Color xxv. 266 Effie didn't do any resisting until I'd planted a good solid smack [i.e. a kiss].

2003 T. R. Kassam in B. M. Wheeler Teaching Islam xii. 206 True comprehension may mean a frank facing up to and resisting of an oppressive social custom.

?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 102 (MED) When a man gropeþ it, it is harde & resistinge to a mannes touching.

1534 Prymer in Eng. sig. D.vij Kepe vs from all euyll, myscheuous, obstynate, harde styffe, vngentyl, and resystyng wyll.

1590 W. Clever Flower of Phisicke 111 The other [kind of succory] is wilde and of more resisting vertue.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 38 Against the browes of this resisting towne. View more context for this quotation

1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis i. xx. 60 Neither did lesse feare inuade his resisting thoughts.

1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana 402/1 It would be presently dull'd..by the resisting Sulphur.

1743 W. Emerson Doctr. Fluxions 288 The Resistance of a Globe moving in a resisting Medium.

1798 C. Hutton Course Math. II. 353 The resisting force is equal to the weight that urges it.

1848 C. Pickering U.S. Exploring Exped.: Races of Man vi. 144 The hair of the Papuan..forms a resisting mass.

1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 329 Anything which..tends to diminish the resisting power of the individual.

1935 A. H. G. Palmer & K. S. Snell Mechanics xi. 241 A flywheel of moment of inertia I is set in motion from rest by a constant couple G, there being a resisting couple equal to μω², where ω is the angular velocity.

1978 W. B. McCloskey Highliners (1980) v. 66 Hank grabbed the rim [of the brailer] and helped Ivan push it down through the resisting fish bodies.

2007 New Yorker 6 Aug. 74/1 Usually, I'm unbeguiled by the rich and glamorous, and I attended ‘Making It New’ in a resisting mood.

1612 S. Sturtevant Metallica xv. 110 Maintained with such fier-resisting meanes, that it cannot possibly melt or burne down.

1708 J. Philips Cyder i. 265 Hazel, and weight-resisting Palm.

1842 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 5 285/2 We have reduced the blow or shock-resisting quality of the iron.

1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 183/2 This suit..is regular wear-resisting goods.

1932 Discovery May 146/2 High tensile irons, corrosion-resisting irons, and growth-resisting irons are now made in large quantities.

1953 Copper in Instrumentation (Copper Devel. Assoc.) i. 33 The use of beryllium copper merely as an oxidation-resisting material would hardly be economical.

1990 S. Bellow in It All adds Up (1993) 249 There is an immovable, change-resisting population of Vermonters in the backcountry.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus 1 John in Paraphr. New Test. ii. f. 46^v Doth not he, that lyueth after such sorte, resistingly denie Christ?

?c1650 tr. ‘Tobias’ Mirabilia Opera Dei xxxi. 113 We observed how that all enemies of the Godly life..rose up very resistingly.

1823 Philadelphia Jrnl. Med. & Physical Sci. 7 338 There is no time of gestation at which the uterus yields so resistingly as at the eighth month.

1905 Westm. Gaz. 1 July 17/2 The mob..fell back slowly and resistingly before the rifle volleys of the troops.

2004 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 5 Dec. 19 ‘Spring’ and ‘Summer’ bring a more dynamic style, including jumps that seem to rise resistingly and hang in the air.