theeingn.
/ðiːɪŋ/, U.S. /ðiɪŋ/ The action of addressing a person with the pronoun thee. Frequently in collocation with thouing.
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1674 S. Butler Libertines Lampoone (single sheet) Quite from bending and bowing, She is declin'd: To Theeing, and to Thouing.
1702 J. Stillingfleet Seasonable Advice Quakerism i. 5 No Man that is not given up to the Delusions of Quakerism can imagine theeing and thouing to be bearing the Cross.
1760 J. Rutty Spiritual Diary (ed. 2) 148 At meeting..was seen my insincerity in Theeing, inconsistent with my writing.
1859 Newark (Ohio) Advocate 4 Nov. All the letters are written in the Quaker style of ‘theeing and thouing’.
1899 Werner's Mag. Jan. 389 The old custom of ‘theeing’ still persists.
1973 M. L. Settle Prisons v. 83 ‘The king doth live,’ he said in the theeing and thouing of simple country speech.
2010 J. L. Satterfield Agent Provocateur 208 Too much like Scripture. All that ‘theeing’ and ‘thouing’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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