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单词 swaying
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swayingn.

/ˈsweɪɪŋ/
Etymology: < sway v. + -ing suffix1.
1. The action of sway v.; movement to and fro; vacillation; influencing, controlling, etc.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > power > influence > [noun] > action or fact of influencing
dominationc1386
prevailment1599
swayinga1665
influencing1754
button pushing1912
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [noun] > swaying
swimblec1386
swagging1566
rolling1578
swaling1824
swaying1837
sway1846
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > [noun]
yea-and-nayc1384
vacillationc1400
titteringa1413
stackeringc1440
wondingc1440
fluctuationc1450
waver1519
mammering1532
uncertainty1548
wavering1548
to and fro1553
suspense1560
staggering1565
suspension1568
mammery1578
demur1581
branle1591
dilly-dally1592
hesitance1601
irresolution1601
uncertainness1601
undecision1611
waveringness1614
hesitancy1617
unsettledness1619
hesitation1622
unresolvednessa1626
doubleness of minda1628
wavinga1628
swagging1636
poise1637
mambling1640
stickagea1647
vacillancy1668
whifflinga1677
hovering1679
unresolve1679
irresoluteness1686
shilly-shally1755
indecisiona1763
undecisiveness1779
indecisiveness1793
oscillation1798
flexility1815
shilly-shallying1842
swaying1850
Hamletism1852
teeter1855
havering1866
off and on1875
dilly-dallying1879
double-mindedness1881
hesitatingness1890
dither1958
a1665 J. Goodwin Πλήρωμα τὸ Πνευματικόv (1670) xiii. 378 For the swaying and ordering of our Judgments in the Question in hand.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. ii. ii. 110 Bread not to be had except by Ticket from the Mayor,..after long swaying, with firm grip, on the chain of the Queue.
1849 C. Kingsley N. Devon: Pt. II in Misc. (1860) II. 275 The swaying of the fir boughs in the gale.
1850 H. Martineau Introd. Hist. Peace II. iv. xiv. 200 His life had been a swaying between contemplation and action.
1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands iv. 132 The low murmur and swaying to and fro of the dense crowd.
2. swaying of or in the back: the condition of being swayed in the back (sway v. 5b) or sway-backed adj. Also back-swaying.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > back or types of > condition of being swayed in the back
swaying of or in the back1598
back-swaying1852
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Feruto, a disease in a horse called the swaying of the neck [sic].
1717 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 2) Swaying in the Back, a Distemper in Horses that comes many ways.
c1720 W. Gibson Farriers New Guide ii. lxviii. 265 By a Swaying of the Back, is properly to be understood a Stretching and Relaxation of the Muscles and Ligaments.
1852 R. Burn Naval & Mil. Techn. Dict. French Lang. (ed. 2) ii. 279 Back swaying, effort des reins.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

swayingadj.

/ˈsweɪɪŋ/
Etymology: < sway v. + -ing suffix2.
I. Senses relating to motion forward.
1. Moving. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > [adjective] > moving
stirringc950
movablea1382
swayingc1400
moving?a1425
shifting1479
mobile1490
unquiet1539
movent1644
impacifica1657
traversing1785
unstationary1832
unsettled1845
shifty1884
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 420 [The ark] Drof vpon þe depe dam..With-outen..any sweande sayl to seche after hauen.
II. Senses relating to a swinging or swaying motion; control.
2. Exercising power, influence, or control; influential, controlling. Obsolete except as the second element of compounds, e.g. all-swaying.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > [adjective] > ruling or governing
regnantc1475
governing1534
ladylike1534
lording1548
ruling1561
signorizing1588
regent1613
swaying1625
regal1653
reigning1705
1625 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1624–9 (1909) 106 [All matters of moment are to be determined by the three captains..; Weddell to have] a double or swaying voyce.
1684 O. Heywood Autobiogr., Diaries, Anecd. & Event Bks. (1885) IV. 111 A sweying man..to moderate the bench.
1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vii. 314 A Member of the House of Commons, and of a swaying Interest there.
1711 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 171 A directing and swayeing head.
3. Vacillating.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > [adjective]
twiredec888
orrathc1175
twofoldc1175
twifoldc1200
waveringc1315
uncertain1382
suspensec1440
mammeringa1450
flowing?1504
floghtering1521
vacillant1521
in a mammering1532
double-minded1552
unstaid1561
unresolute1570
unresolved?1571
staggeringa1577
frittle1579
irresolute1579
cheverel1583
off and on1583
halting1585
unsettleda1593
unresolving1599
demurring1607
waving1611
suspensive1614
hoveringa1616
startling1619
irresolved1621
hesitating1622
indetermined1628
variousa1643
branling1645
hesitant1647
non-sincere1656
hesitatious1657
humdrum1660
shuttlecock1660
yea-and-nay1672
swaying1688
interpendent1708
undetermined1718
Squadronec1720
hesitatorya1734
volanta1734
shilly-shally1734
dilly-dally1749
niffy-naffy1765
wiggle-waggle1778
undecided1779
undecisive1780
indecisive1787
conflicted1789
hesitative1795
undeciding1802
vacillating1814
yea-nay1827
demurrant1836
willy-nilly1839
shilly-shallying1842
oscillative1852
Hamletish1854
vacillatory1854
dilly-dallying1879
thistledown1897
weak-principled1913
not-quite1920
off-again on-again1923
dithery1931
havering1975
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 74/2 The Laws of Coursing..often alter according to some Mens swaying Fancies.
4. In horses, ‘a hollow sinking down of the Back-bone’ (Bailey, 1726).
5. Moving to and fro.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [adjective] > swaying
nodding1693
rolling1753
swaling1824
swaying1847
swingy1943
1847 W. M. Thackeray Lords & Liv. iii The mad swaying rush of the horses was reduced to a..steady gallop.
1875 A. Maclaren Serm. 2nd Ser. vii. 121 The swaying branches creak and groan.
1899 E. J. Chapman Snake-witch in Drama Two Lives 53 The flood-swept land and the swaying sea.

Derivatives

ˈswayingly adv. with a swaying motion.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [adverb] > swaying
swalingly1822
swayingly1854
a-sway1858
swingingly1882
weavingly1945
1854 J. S. Bushnan in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. (c1865) I. 294/2 On the tall poplar tree Perch'd swayingly.
1882 Proctor in Contemp. Rev. Mar. 476 Carried, not bodily, but still swayingly, against the direction of rotation.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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