tidingn.¹

/ˈtʌɪdɪŋ/

Inflections: plural tidings

/ˈtaɪdɪŋz/.

Forms:

α. (a) singular Old English–Middle English tídung, Middle English tidding, Middle English tidinge, Middle English tidyng, Middle English tidynge, Middle English tydyng, Middle English tydynge, Middle English tytynge, Middle English–1500s tydinge, Middle English–1600s tyding, Middle English– tiding. 1069–1125 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 995 (MS. F.) Ða wearþ se cing swyþe bliðe þissere tidunge.c1275 Laȝamon Brut 1376 Þe tiding com to Corineum, þat [etc.].c1275 Laȝamon Brut 22323 Þe tyding com to þan kinge.a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2907 Moyses told hem ðis tidding.c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Hypsipyle & Medea. 1424 Theere was swich tydyng [v.rr. tidynge, tiding] oueral & swich loos.1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 238 This tyding Of Jason.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 5114 Þis tyding his soru slake.a1400 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 7979 (MS. B) Þer of com to normandie þe tydynge attelaste.a1400 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 9178 (MS. B) Tytynge him com Þat [etc.].c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 1087 To me þis is a Ioyfull tydyng.1620 I. V. tr. P. du Moulin Serm. 4 It is a blessed tyding of which Jesus Christ not only is the subject and substance, but also the bearer and proclaimer.1879 L. Shepherd tr. P. Guéranger Liturg. Year: Time after Pentecost I. vi. 68 At such a tiding as this, what else can I, than cry out,..Lord! I am not worthy. (b) plural Old English tídunga, Old English tídunge, Middle English tidenggez, Middle English tiding, Middle English tidinge, Middle English tidynge, Middle English tydinge, Middle English–1500s tidinges, Middle English–1500s tydinges, Middle English–1500s tydingis, Middle English–1500s tydynges, Middle English–1500s tydyngges, Middle English–1500s tydyngys, Middle English–1700s tydings, 1500s tidyngs, 1500s tydengs (Scottish), 1500s tydyngs, 1500s– tidings. c1200 Vices & Virt. 17 Ic scal iheren reuliche tidinge.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1798 Þe swein..seide þas tidinge [c1300 Otho þeos tiding].c1275 Laȝamon Brut 1038 Þeos tidinge him were loþe.c1275 Laȝamon Brut 8582 Þe tidinges him were lefue.c1275 Laȝamon Brut 24427 Many tidynge Mid Arthur þan kinge.a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 4877 Þe murþe..mad for þo tiding whan þei told were.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 7798 I cum, to telle þe tydinges lele.1486 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 54 Sir, as for tydings, here is but few.1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jonah iii. 6 The tydinges came vnto y^e kinge of Niniue.1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd ii. 62 Her Son,..left at Jordan, tydings of him none.1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin xlii What news? what news? your tidings tell.1851 C. M. Yonge Cameos viii, in Monthly Packet Sept. 168 Further tidings were anxiously awaited.1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1875) III. xiii. 260 Perplexed for a moment by the suddenness of the tidings.

β. (a) singular Middle English teþinge, Middle English tithing, Middle English tiþing, Middle English tiðinge, Middle English tiþingue, Middle English tithyng, Middle English tiþyng, Middle English tithynge, Middle English tiþynge, Middle English tything, Middle English tyþing, Middle English tythyng, Middle English tyþyng, Middle English tythynge, Middle English tyþynge, 1500s teytheyng. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 6/190 He seide þat one tiþingue to him fram is fader he brouȝte.c1305 St. Lucy 155 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 105 A ioyful teþinge ic ȝou telle.c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 14 Þat Brittrik was dede him com tiþing.1483 Cath. Angl. 389/1 To telle Tythynge, rvmificare.1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) ii. 456 He wes blyþ off þat tithing.a1600 King & Barker 62 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 7 Y know now teytheyng, the thanner seyde. (b) plural Middle English tethinges, Middle English tiðinge, Middle English tiþinges, Middle English tithings, Middle English tithyngs, Middle English tythings, Middle English–1500s tithinges, Middle English–1500s tithingis, Middle English–1500s tithingys, Middle English–1500s tithynges, Middle English–1500s tithyngus, Middle English–1500s tythinges, Middle English–1500s tyþinges, Middle English–1500s tythingis, Middle English–1500s tyþingis, Middle English–1500s tythingys, Middle English–1500s tyþingys, Middle English–1500s tythynges, Middle English–1500s tyþynges, Middle English–1500s tythyngus, Middle English–1500s tyþyngus. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 93 Ða iwearð þer muchel eie..on alle þam þat þeos tiðinge iherdon.c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 31 Gode tiðinge and murie to heren.c1290 Beket 1493 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 149 Þo þeos tiþinges to þe kingue..cam.c1300 Beket 695 (Percy S.) 34 Tethinges to the kinge come.c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 198 Good tiþingis of þe kyngdom of hevene.c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxv. 119 When any tythings er herd in þe cuntree.c1440 Partonope 2697 Sone after haue they tithings.1530 J. Rastell New Bk. Purgatory Prol. sig. A.i^v What tythynges or news.1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 49 To zow thir tythingis trew I bring.

γ. (a) singular Middle English tiȝand, Middle English tiðend, Middle English tiðende, Middle English tiþennde ( Ormulum), Middle English tiðind, Middle English tiþond, Middle English tiþonde, Middle English tyȝand, Middle English tythand, Middle English tythande, Middle English–1500s tiþand, Middle English–1500s tithande, Middle English–1500s tiþande, Middle English–1500s 1800s tithand. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) Ded. l. 158 Goddspell onn ennglissh nemmnedd iss..god tiþennde.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3760 Þa isæh Cesar tiðend [c1300 Otho tidinge] þat him wes sær.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 690 Þa tiðind [c1300 Otho tiding] com to Corineum þat [etc.].a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12785 Þai sent þair messageres..To bring fra iohn certan tiþand [Fairf. tiþande, Trin. Cambr. tiþond].a1500 (?c1400) Sir Triamour (Cambr.) (1937) l. 156 They..tolde the kynge hur tythande.1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ii. vii. [vi.] 50 How now, Panthus, quhat tithand do ȝe bryng?1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 69 He'd got some tithand from the coast. (b) plural Middle English tithands, Middle English tiþandus, Middle English tithanndez, Middle English tiþans, Middle English tithaundes, Middle English tiðen, Middle English tiðende, Middle English tyȝandes, Middle English tythandes, Middle English tythandis, Middle English tythandys, Middle English tythondys, Middle English–1500s tiþandes, Middle English–1500s tiþandis, Middle English–1500s tythands, 1500s tithindes, 1500s tythance (Scottish). c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6984 Heo sæiden to þan kinge neowe tiðenden.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 521 Þæs tiðende [c1300 Otho þeos tidinge] him weren læðe.a1352 L. Minot Poems iii. 58 Þe galay men..thanked God of þir tiþandes.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 15912 For tiþans þat war tald.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 10312 Þis angel..Broght him tyȝandes sua gode.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 3322 Þe maydyn ranne hame tiþandus to tel.c1440 York Myst. xxiii. 60 Som new tythandys.?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 7802 Þe tithands went to many towns.1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay sig. Piii^v This promis is the vangel or ioiful tithandis.1578 J. Rolland Seuin Seages 115 Of ȝour tythance I am richt wonder glaid.a1584 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xx. 26 At me thay speir Quhat tythands in this land?

δ. (a) singular Middle English tidende, Middle English tidind, Middle English tydand, Middle English tydande, Middle English tydant, Middle English tydond, Middle English tydynde. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8718 Þat tidende [c1300 Otho tydinge] com to þan kinge.c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1963) l. 4955 Come þe tidind [c1275 Calig. þa tiðende] to Maurus þan kinke.c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 5005 Men tolde þe kyng tydant, þat Romayns were aryue on land.c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 15936 Til hym cam ful smert tydande [rhyme on lande].a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 10417 Quen þat scho herd þis tydand [Vesp. tiþand, Trin. Cambr. tiþonde; c1460 Laud tydond].c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 15242 To telle him of her tydande.c1460 Launfal 838 Everych man therfore was wo That wyste of that tydynde. (b) plural Middle English tidandes, Middle English tidende, Middle English tidinde, Middle English tydandes, Middle English tydandis, Middle English tydannes, Middle English tytandis, 1500s tydance (Scottish), 1500s tydinnis (Scottish). c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2563 Selcuðe tidende [c1300 Otho tidinges].c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1664 For ȝef ferrene kinges hiherde þa tidinde [c1300 Otho soche þinges].1451 J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert 72 Þe grete fere þat he hadde þat he schuld her no euel tytandis of hem.1451 J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert 115 The archbischop..saide he was glad of þese tydannes.1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xi. xvii. 65 All the maist cruell tydinnis fillis his eris.a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 72 Wee will heir tydance..of thy pow.

ε. singular and plural Middle English thiþand, Middle English thiþynges, Middle English thyȝandez, Middle English þyþingue, Middle English thythyng, Middle English thythynges, 1500s thithingis. c1290 St. Lucy 157 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 105 Ane Ioyeful þyþingue ich eou telle.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10994 To þam he moght tell na thiþand [Gött. tiþand, Trin. Cambr. tiþond; c1460 Laud tydond].?a1400 Morte Arth. 1567 I ȝif the for thy thyȝandez Tolouse þe riche.c1400 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 4251 Hom com tydinge [MS. βthiþynges].c1425 Seven Sag. (P.) 1538 When he herde thys thythyng.a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 2279 Whar that al thithingis goith & cumyth son.

Origin: Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian.

Etymology: Late Old English tídung (feminine), early Middle English tiding , as if < Old English tíd-an verb to happen, befall + -ing suffix¹; but probably < Old Norse tíðendi , -indi neuter plural, ‘events, occurrences, the reports of these, news, tidings’, < tíðr adjective, happening, occurring + -endi , -indi , nominal suffix (see Vigfusson Icel. Dict. xxxiii/1); thence Middle Swedish tidhende event, occurrence, news, Swedish tidender masculine plural, Norwegian and Danish tidende n. singular tidings. In form, late Old English tídung (oblique cases *tídunge (-a ), plural nominative -a (-e ), genitive -a , dative -um ) might well be a derivative of tíd-an , tide v.¹; but the fact that, beside it, early Middle English had also tíðende, -inde, tīthend, clearly from Norse, also tīðing(e, with Norse stem and English suffix, and tīdende, -inde, with English stem and Norse suffix, together with the fact that the word is unknown to Old English before the late 11th or early 12th cent., and is recorded first in the transferred sense ‘tidings’, makes it probable that the whole group in English was adopted < Old Norse, in the north in the Norse form, in the south anglicized, in intervening districts with various mixtures of the two forms. It is noticeable that the English or fully anglicized form is that which happens to occur earliest in an extant writing, and also that which survives in modern English, though the Norse type (with English plural -s) tithand(e)s, tithans, came down to 15th cent. in northern English and to 16–17th cent. in ScotsIn Old Norse tíðindi is only plural; so Swedish tidender; in Norwegian and Danish tidende is singular; in early Middle English tiðende was singular or plural, with a tendency to make the singular tiðend; the anglicized tídung, -ing, normally had the plural *tídunga, tidinge; but, as in other feminine nouns, the -e of the oblique cases of the singular was often taken by the nominative A single instance of plural tiðenden occurs in the later text of Layamon; but from c1275 the plurals became tidinges and tithand(e)s. The existing form tidings is usually construed as plural, but sometimes as singular: compare news. German zeitung, Middle High German zîtunge (1321 in Niederrheinisch) = Middle Low German tidinge (1458 in Bremen Doc.), Dutch tijding, which agree in form with English tiding, are of later appearance, and by some held to be due to Scandinavian influence (Kluge).

a. Something that happens; an event, incident, occurrence. Obsolete or archaic.This is the etymologically earlier sense; though not exemplified in English quite so early as sense 2, it was no doubt current in the Danelaw district from the first. In the two late quots. a literalism of translation.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > occurrence or event

weird971

redeOE

thingOE

limpc1200

casea1250

tidingc1275

timinga1325

being?c1400

incident?1462

advenement1490

occurrent1523

accidenta1525

occurrence1539

affair1550

event1554

happening1561

événement1567

success1588

betide1590

circumstance1592

arrivage1603

eveniency1660

occurrency1671

betider1674

befalling1839

whet1849

intermezzo1851

transpiration1908

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3760 Þa isæh Cesar tiðend þat him wes sær [c1300 Otho tidinge þat was sor].

c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 628 How that this blisful tidyng [Petworth MS. tydyngges] is bifalle.

1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) v. vi. sig. ss.i In the delytes of paradyse is neuer founde ony varyacyon, alwayes in loue without tydynges.

1861 G. W. Dasent tr. Story Burnt Njal I. 107 It must be told what tidings [Icel. hvat tíðenda] happened at home.

1864 G. W. Dasent Jest & Earnest (1873) II. 192 The tokens that are left of those tidings which happened there.

†b. Custom, usage. Obsolete. rare.Cf. Old Norse tíðr customary, habitual, that happens, tíðska custom, usage, fashion.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [noun] > custom of a society or group

i-wunec888

thewc893

wise971

law of (the) landc1175

customa1200

wonec1200

tidingc1275

orderc1300

usancea1325

usagec1330

usea1393

guisea1400

spacec1400

stylec1430

rite1467

fashion1490

frequentation1525

institution1551

tradition1597

mode1642

shibboleth1804

dastur1888

praxis1892

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7149 Hit beoð tiðende [c1300 Otho þe wone] inne Sæxe-londe..þat [etc.].

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1027 Seoððen com oþer tir & neowe tidinde [c1300 Otho tidinge].

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 200 After þen heðene tidende [c1300 Otho lawe] þe wes in þan londe.

a. The announcement of an event or occurrence; a piece of news (now obsolete or archaic); usually in plural tidings, reports, news, intelligence, information.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun]

wordOE

tiding1069

messagec1325

sound1413

news1417

advicec1425

noveltya1450

novelsc1450

newel1484

strangesa1500

nouvellesc1500

uncouthsa1529

occurrent1583

actualité1840

society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] > piece of

tiding1069

novela1500

news1574

evangel1842

1069–1125 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 995 (MS. F.) Ða wearþ se cing swyþe bliðe þissere tidunge.

c1290 Beket 1493 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 149 Þo þeos tiþinges to þe kingue..cam.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 7798 I cum, to telle þe tydinges lele.

1486 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 54 Sir, as for tydings, here is but few.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jonah iii. 6 The tydinges came vnto y^e kinge of Niniue.

1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd ii. 62 Her Son,..left at Jordan, tydings of him none.

1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin xlii What news? what news? your tidings tell.

1851 C. M. Yonge Cameos viii, in Monthly Packet Sept. 168 Further tidings were anxiously awaited.

1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1875) III. xiii. 260 Perplexed for a moment by the suddenness of the tidings.

b. plural construed as singular.

ΚΠ

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 15912 Tiþinges þat was talde.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. ii. 115 The tydings comes, that they are all arriu'd.

1619 W. Sclater Expos. 1 Thess. (1638) 214 When tidings is brought us of Brethrens faultings.

1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Gen. xxxv. 22) 283 Jacob's great amazement at this sad tidings.

1839 T. Carlyle Chartism v. 48 The tidings was world-old, or older.

†c. figurative. Indications, traces. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > trace or vestige > [noun]

signa1382

stepa1382

ficchingc1384

marka1400

tracesc1400

scentc1422

footstep?a1425

tidinga1440

relicc1475

smell?a1505

stead1513

vestigy1545

print1548

token1555

remnant1560

show1561

mention1564

signification1576

footing?1580

tract1583

remainder1585

vestige1602

wrack1602

engravement1604

footstepping1610

resent1610

ghost1613

impression1613

remark1624

footprint1625

studdle1635

vestigium1644

relict1646

perception1650

vestigiary1651

track1657

symptom1722

signacle1768

ray1773

vestigia1789

footmark1800

souvenir1844

latent1920

a1440 Sir Eglam. 367 Where the bore had wonte to bee; Tydyngys of hym sone he fonde, Slayne men on every honde.

Compounds

tidings-bearer, tidings-bringer, tidings-bringing, tidings-maker.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > one who chats or gossips > one who spreads rumours

ear-rounder?1387

tidings-makerc1440

runkera1500

rumourera1616

scatter-storya1670

gazette1703

quidnunc1709

anecdote-monger1761

what-now1890

yenta1923

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 493/2 Tydyngys berare, rumigerulus.

1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton g vj b Thou arte a lyar and a tydynges maker.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xvii. 18 He semeth to be a tydynges brynger off new devyls [ Coverd. goddes].

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. iv. 17 Then answered the tydinge bringer, & sayde: Israel is fled before the Philistynes.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Tidynges carier, renuncius, ij.

1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) A Tidings bringing, nunciation.

Derivatives

ˈtidingless adj. without tidings.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [adjective] > lacking information

none the wiserc1175

unformedc1540

untold1590

uninformed1597

unascertained1628

unnewseda1644

a stranger to1694

unapprised1728

tidingless1822

unenlightened1829

out of the loop1976

society > communication > information > news or tidings > [adjective] > full of news > not

newsless1746

tidingless1822

1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 11 398 As tidingless returning as before.

1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 430 Tidingless a while day passed by day.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	tiding
释义	tidingn.¹ /ˈtʌɪdɪŋ/ Inflections: plural tidings /ˈtaɪdɪŋz/. Forms: α. (a) singular Old English–Middle English tídung, Middle English tidding, Middle English tidinge, Middle English tidyng, Middle English tidynge, Middle English tydyng, Middle English tydynge, Middle English tytynge, Middle English–1500s tydinge, Middle English–1600s tyding, Middle English– tiding. 1069–1125 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 995 (MS. F.) Ða wearþ se cing swyþe bliðe þissere tidunge.c1275 Laȝamon Brut 1376 Þe tiding com to Corineum, þat [etc.].c1275 Laȝamon Brut 22323 Þe tyding com to þan kinge.a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2907 Moyses told hem ðis tidding.c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Hypsipyle & Medea. 1424 Theere was swich tydyng [v.rr. tidynge, tiding] oueral & swich loos.1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 238 This tyding Of Jason.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 5114 Þis tyding his soru slake.a1400 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 7979 (MS. B) Þer of com to normandie þe tydynge attelaste.a1400 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 9178 (MS. B) Tytynge him com Þat [etc.].c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 1087 To me þis is a Ioyfull tydyng.1620 I. V. tr. P. du Moulin Serm. 4 It is a blessed tyding of which Jesus Christ not only is the subject and substance, but also the bearer and proclaimer.1879 L. Shepherd tr. P. Guéranger Liturg. Year: Time after Pentecost I. vi. 68 At such a tiding as this, what else can I, than cry out,..Lord! I am not worthy. (b) plural Old English tídunga, Old English tídunge, Middle English tidenggez, Middle English tiding, Middle English tidinge, Middle English tidynge, Middle English tydinge, Middle English–1500s tidinges, Middle English–1500s tydinges, Middle English–1500s tydingis, Middle English–1500s tydynges, Middle English–1500s tydyngges, Middle English–1500s tydyngys, Middle English–1700s tydings, 1500s tidyngs, 1500s tydengs (Scottish), 1500s tydyngs, 1500s– tidings. c1200 Vices & Virt. 17 Ic scal iheren reuliche tidinge.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1798 Þe swein..seide þas tidinge [c1300 Otho þeos tiding].c1275 Laȝamon Brut 1038 Þeos tidinge him were loþe.c1275 Laȝamon Brut 8582 Þe tidinges him were lefue.c1275 Laȝamon Brut 24427 Many tidynge Mid Arthur þan kinge.a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 4877 Þe murþe..mad for þo tiding whan þei told were.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 7798 I cum, to telle þe tydinges lele.1486 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 54 Sir, as for tydings, here is but few.1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jonah iii. 6 The tydinges came vnto y^e kinge of Niniue.1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd ii. 62 Her Son,..left at Jordan, tydings of him none.1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin xlii What news? what news? your tidings tell.1851 C. M. Yonge Cameos viii, in Monthly Packet Sept. 168 Further tidings were anxiously awaited.1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1875) III. xiii. 260 Perplexed for a moment by the suddenness of the tidings. β. (a) singular Middle English teþinge, Middle English tithing, Middle English tiþing, Middle English tiðinge, Middle English tiþingue, Middle English tithyng, Middle English tiþyng, Middle English tithynge, Middle English tiþynge, Middle English tything, Middle English tyþing, Middle English tythyng, Middle English tyþyng, Middle English tythynge, Middle English tyþynge, 1500s teytheyng. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 6/190 He seide þat one tiþingue to him fram is fader he brouȝte.c1305 St. Lucy 155 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 105 A ioyful teþinge ic ȝou telle.c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 14 Þat Brittrik was dede him com tiþing.1483 Cath. Angl. 389/1 To telle Tythynge, rvmificare.1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) ii. 456 He wes blyþ off þat tithing.a1600 King & Barker 62 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 7 Y know now teytheyng, the thanner seyde. (b) plural Middle English tethinges, Middle English tiðinge, Middle English tiþinges, Middle English tithings, Middle English tithyngs, Middle English tythings, Middle English–1500s tithinges, Middle English–1500s tithingis, Middle English–1500s tithingys, Middle English–1500s tithynges, Middle English–1500s tithyngus, Middle English–1500s tythinges, Middle English–1500s tyþinges, Middle English–1500s tythingis, Middle English–1500s tyþingis, Middle English–1500s tythingys, Middle English–1500s tyþingys, Middle English–1500s tythynges, Middle English–1500s tyþynges, Middle English–1500s tythyngus, Middle English–1500s tyþyngus. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 93 Ða iwearð þer muchel eie..on alle þam þat þeos tiðinge iherdon.c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 31 Gode tiðinge and murie to heren.c1290 Beket 1493 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 149 Þo þeos tiþinges to þe kingue..cam.c1300 Beket 695 (Percy S.) 34 Tethinges to the kinge come.c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 198 Good tiþingis of þe kyngdom of hevene.c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxv. 119 When any tythings er herd in þe cuntree.c1440 Partonope 2697 Sone after haue they tithings.1530 J. Rastell New Bk. Purgatory Prol. sig. A.i^v What tythynges or news.1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 49 To zow thir tythingis trew I bring. γ. (a) singular Middle English tiȝand, Middle English tiðend, Middle English tiðende, Middle English tiþennde ( Ormulum), Middle English tiðind, Middle English tiþond, Middle English tiþonde, Middle English tyȝand, Middle English tythand, Middle English tythande, Middle English–1500s tiþand, Middle English–1500s tithande, Middle English–1500s tiþande, Middle English–1500s 1800s tithand. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) Ded. l. 158 Goddspell onn ennglissh nemmnedd iss..god tiþennde.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3760 Þa isæh Cesar tiðend [c1300 Otho tidinge] þat him wes sær.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 690 Þa tiðind [c1300 Otho tiding] com to Corineum þat [etc.].a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12785 Þai sent þair messageres..To bring fra iohn certan tiþand [Fairf. tiþande, Trin. Cambr. tiþond].a1500 (?c1400) Sir Triamour (Cambr.) (1937) l. 156 They..tolde the kynge hur tythande.1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ii. vii. [vi.] 50 How now, Panthus, quhat tithand do ȝe bryng?1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 69 He'd got some tithand from the coast. (b) plural Middle English tithands, Middle English tiþandus, Middle English tithanndez, Middle English tiþans, Middle English tithaundes, Middle English tiðen, Middle English tiðende, Middle English tyȝandes, Middle English tythandes, Middle English tythandis, Middle English tythandys, Middle English tythondys, Middle English–1500s tiþandes, Middle English–1500s tiþandis, Middle English–1500s tythands, 1500s tithindes, 1500s tythance (Scottish). c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6984 Heo sæiden to þan kinge neowe tiðenden.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 521 Þæs tiðende [c1300 Otho þeos tidinge] him weren læðe.a1352 L. Minot Poems iii. 58 Þe galay men..thanked God of þir tiþandes.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 15912 For tiþans þat war tald.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 10312 Þis angel..Broght him tyȝandes sua gode.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 3322 Þe maydyn ranne hame tiþandus to tel.c1440 York Myst. xxiii. 60 Som new tythandys.?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 7802 Þe tithands went to many towns.1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay sig. Piii^v This promis is the vangel or ioiful tithandis.1578 J. Rolland Seuin Seages 115 Of ȝour tythance I am richt wonder glaid.a1584 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xx. 26 At me thay speir Quhat tythands in this land? δ. (a) singular Middle English tidende, Middle English tidind, Middle English tydand, Middle English tydande, Middle English tydant, Middle English tydond, Middle English tydynde. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8718 Þat tidende [c1300 Otho tydinge] com to þan kinge.c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1963) l. 4955 Come þe tidind [c1275 Calig. þa tiðende] to Maurus þan kinke.c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 5005 Men tolde þe kyng tydant, þat Romayns were aryue on land.c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 15936 Til hym cam ful smert tydande [rhyme on lande].a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 10417 Quen þat scho herd þis tydand [Vesp. tiþand, Trin. Cambr. tiþonde; c1460 Laud tydond].c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 15242 To telle him of her tydande.c1460 Launfal 838 Everych man therfore was wo That wyste of that tydynde. (b) plural Middle English tidandes, Middle English tidende, Middle English tidinde, Middle English tydandes, Middle English tydandis, Middle English tydannes, Middle English tytandis, 1500s tydance (Scottish), 1500s tydinnis (Scottish). c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2563 Selcuðe tidende [c1300 Otho tidinges].c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1664 For ȝef ferrene kinges hiherde þa tidinde [c1300 Otho soche þinges].1451 J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert 72 Þe grete fere þat he hadde þat he schuld her no euel tytandis of hem.1451 J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert 115 The archbischop..saide he was glad of þese tydannes.1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xi. xvii. 65 All the maist cruell tydinnis fillis his eris.a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 72 Wee will heir tydance..of thy pow. ε. singular and plural Middle English thiþand, Middle English thiþynges, Middle English thyȝandez, Middle English þyþingue, Middle English thythyng, Middle English thythynges, 1500s thithingis. c1290 St. Lucy 157 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 105 Ane Ioyeful þyþingue ich eou telle.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10994 To þam he moght tell na thiþand [Gött. tiþand, Trin. Cambr. tiþond; c1460 Laud tydond].?a1400 Morte Arth. 1567 I ȝif the for thy thyȝandez Tolouse þe riche.c1400 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 4251 Hom com tydinge [MS. βthiþynges].c1425 Seven Sag. (P.) 1538 When he herde thys thythyng.a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 2279 Whar that al thithingis goith & cumyth son. Origin: Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymology: Late Old English tídung (feminine), early Middle English tiding , as if < Old English tíd-an verb to happen, befall + -ing suffix¹; but probably < Old Norse tíðendi , -indi neuter plural, ‘events, occurrences, the reports of these, news, tidings’, < tíðr adjective, happening, occurring + -endi , -indi , nominal suffix (see Vigfusson Icel. Dict. xxxiii/1); thence Middle Swedish tidhende event, occurrence, news, Swedish tidender masculine plural, Norwegian and Danish tidende n. singular tidings. In form, late Old English tídung (oblique cases tídunge (-a ), plural nominative -a (-e ), genitive -a , dative -um* ) might well be a derivative of tíd-an , tide v.¹; but the fact that, beside it, early Middle English had also tíðende, -inde, tīthend, clearly from Norse, also tīðing(e, with Norse stem and English suffix, and tīdende, -inde, with English stem and Norse suffix, together with the fact that the word is unknown to Old English before the late 11th or early 12th cent., and is recorded first in the transferred sense ‘tidings’, makes it probable that the whole group in English was adopted < Old Norse, in the north in the Norse form, in the south anglicized, in intervening districts with various mixtures of the two forms. It is noticeable that the English or fully anglicized form is that which happens to occur earliest in an extant writing, and also that which survives in modern English, though the Norse type (with English plural -s) tithand(e)s, tithans, came down to 15th cent. in northern English and to 16–17th cent. in ScotsIn Old Norse tíðindi is only plural; so Swedish tidender; in Norwegian and Danish tidende is singular; in early Middle English tiðende was singular or plural, with a tendency to make the singular tiðend; the anglicized tídung, -ing, normally had the plural tídunga, tidinge; but, as in other feminine nouns, the -e of the oblique cases of the singular was often taken by the nominative A single instance of plural tiðenden* occurs in the later text of Layamon; but from c1275 the plurals became tidinges and tithand(e)s. The existing form tidings is usually construed as plural, but sometimes as singular: compare news. German zeitung, Middle High German zîtunge (1321 in Niederrheinisch) = Middle Low German tidinge (1458 in Bremen Doc.), Dutch tijding, which agree in form with English tiding, are of later appearance, and by some held to be due to Scandinavian influence (Kluge). 1. a. Something that happens; an event, incident, occurrence. Obsolete or archaic.This is the etymologically earlier sense; though not exemplified in English quite so early as sense 2, it was no doubt current in the Danelaw district from the first. In the two late quots. a literalism of translation. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > occurrence or event weird971 redeOE thingOE limpc1200 casea1250 tidingc1275 timinga1325 being?c1400 incident?1462 advenement1490 occurrent1523 accidenta1525 occurrence1539 affair1550 event1554 happening1561 événement1567 success1588 betide1590 circumstance1592 arrivage1603 eveniency1660 occurrency1671 betider1674 befalling1839 whet1849 intermezzo1851 transpiration1908 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3760 Þa isæh Cesar tiðend þat him wes sær [c1300 Otho tidinge þat was sor]. c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 628 How that this blisful tidyng [Petworth MS. tydyngges] is bifalle. 1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) v. vi. sig. ss.i In the delytes of paradyse is neuer founde ony varyacyon, alwayes in loue without tydynges. 1861 G. W. Dasent tr. Story Burnt Njal I. 107 It must be told what tidings [Icel. hvat tíðenda] happened at home. 1864 G. W. Dasent Jest & Earnest (1873) II. 192 The tokens that are left of those tidings which happened there. †b. Custom, usage. Obsolete. rare.Cf. Old Norse tíðr customary, habitual, that happens, tíðska custom, usage, fashion. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [noun] > custom of a society or group i-wunec888 thewc893 wise971 law of (the) landc1175 customa1200 wonec1200 tidingc1275 orderc1300 usancea1325 usagec1330 usea1393 guisea1400 spacec1400 stylec1430 rite1467 fashion1490 frequentation1525 institution1551 tradition1597 mode1642 shibboleth1804 dastur1888 praxis1892 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7149 Hit beoð tiðende [c1300 Otho þe wone] inne Sæxe-londe..þat [etc.]. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1027 Seoððen com oþer tir & neowe tidinde [c1300 Otho tidinge]. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 200 After þen heðene tidende [c1300 Otho lawe] þe wes in þan londe. 2. a. The announcement of an event or occurrence; a piece of news (now obsolete or archaic); usually in plural tidings, reports, news, intelligence, information. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] wordOE tiding1069 messagec1325 sound1413 news1417 advicec1425 noveltya1450 novelsc1450 newel1484 strangesa1500 nouvellesc1500 uncouthsa1529 occurrent1583 actualité1840 society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] > piece of tiding1069 novela1500 news1574 evangel1842 1069–1125 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 995 (MS. F.) Ða wearþ se cing swyþe bliðe þissere tidunge. c1290 Beket 1493 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 149 Þo þeos tiþinges to þe kingue..cam. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 7798 I cum, to telle þe tydinges lele. 1486 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 54 Sir, as for tydings, here is but few. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jonah iii. 6 The tydinges came vnto y^e kinge of Niniue. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd ii. 62 Her Son,..left at Jordan, tydings of him none. 1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin xlii What news? what news? your tidings tell. 1851 C. M. Yonge Cameos viii, in Monthly Packet Sept. 168 Further tidings were anxiously awaited. 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1875) III. xiii. 260 Perplexed for a moment by the suddenness of the tidings. b. plural construed as singular. ΚΠ a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 15912 Tiþinges þat was talde. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. ii. 115 The tydings comes, that they are all arriu'd. View more context for this quotation 1619 W. Sclater Expos. 1 Thess. (1638) 214 When tidings is brought us of Brethrens faultings. 1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Gen. xxxv. 22) 283 Jacob's great amazement at this sad tidings. 1839 T. Carlyle Chartism v. 48 The tidings was world-old, or older. †c. figurative. Indications, traces. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > trace or vestige > [noun] signa1382 stepa1382 ficchingc1384 marka1400 tracesc1400 scentc1422 footstep?a1425 tidinga1440 relicc1475 smell?a1505 stead1513 vestigy1545 print1548 token1555 remnant1560 show1561 mention1564 signification1576 footing?1580 tract1583 remainder1585 vestige1602 wrack1602 engravement1604 footstepping1610 resent1610 ghost1613 impression1613 remark1624 footprint1625 studdle1635 vestigium1644 relict1646 perception1650 vestigiary1651 track1657 symptom1722 signacle1768 ray1773 vestigia1789 footmark1800 souvenir1844 latent1920 a1440 Sir Eglam. 367 Where the bore had wonte to bee; Tydyngys of hym sone he fonde, Slayne men on every honde. Compounds tidings-bearer, tidings-bringer, tidings-bringing, tidings-maker. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > one who chats or gossips > one who spreads rumours ear-rounder?1387 tidings-makerc1440 runkera1500 rumourera1616 scatter-storya1670 gazette1703 quidnunc1709 anecdote-monger1761 what-now1890 yenta1923 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 493/2 Tydyngys berare, rumigerulus. 1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton g vj b Thou arte a lyar and a tydynges maker. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xvii. 18 He semeth to be a tydynges brynger off new devyls [ Coverd. goddes]. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. iv. 17 Then answered the tydinge bringer, & sayde: Israel is fled before the Philistynes. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Tidynges carier, renuncius, ij. 1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) A Tidings bringing, nunciation. Derivatives ˈtidingless adj. without tidings. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [adjective] > lacking information none the wiserc1175 unformedc1540 untold1590 uninformed1597 unascertained1628 unnewseda1644 a stranger to1694 unapprised1728 tidingless1822 unenlightened1829 out of the loop1976 society > communication > information > news or tidings > [adjective] > full of news > not newsless1746 tidingless1822 1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 11 398 As tidingless returning as before. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 430 Tidingless a while day passed by day. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021). tidingn.² Etymology: < tide v.², or tide n. + -ing suffix¹.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtiding. †1. a. The flowing or rising of the tide; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > [noun] > flowing or surging (as the tide) tiding1593 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > rising or flowing in flood risinga1387 acker1440 increase1555 swelling1557 flow1583 tiding1593 float1594 afflux1603 flux1612 flowing1642 flood-tide1719 1593 B. Barnes Parthenophil & Parthenophe 26 More then blessed was I if one tyding Of fœmal fauour set mine hart afloate. 1639 G. Daniel Ecclus. xii. 16 The gust of Sin, may Stir a Surly tiding, In Seas pacifique. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία Pref. sig. a v Would you know (saith he) my manner of writing? it is a kind of voluntary Tiding of, not Pumping for; Notions flowing, not forced. 1675 E. Wilson Spadacrene Dunelmensis 21 No more of the River comes back again by tiding than what the Sea forc'd up at the time of its tiding. b. attributive. tiding time n. in quot. 1693 figurative. ΚΠ 1693 Mr. Paschall in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 816 The Fits generally lasted all the Tiding time, and then went off in gentle kindly Sweats in the Ebbs. 2. A sailing or drifting with the tide. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of tides > [noun] > going with the tide tiding1681 1681 T. Duseley in Trans. Kilkenny Archæol. Soc. 2nd Ser. 4 320 They very easily putt to sea.., a very small matter of tideing (if any) serves turne. 1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 164 Stream Anchor; which stops the Ship in tiding up a River. 1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 241 After tiding for three hours anchor in the Sound. 1817 M. Keating Trav. II. 143 Some little advantage in point of position..with convenience of tiding up inland. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2021). tidingadj. Etymology: < tide v.² + -ing suffix².Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtiding. That ebbs and flows; tidal. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [adjective] > ebbing and flowing recourseful1612 refluent1616 tiding1622 floating1714 tidal1808 tided1852 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxx. 163 There is a Tyding-well, That daily ebbs and flowes. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 372 If we fling our Bread upon the Waters, we chuse not Currents that run all one way (and that from us), but tyding waters. 1722 A. Philips Briton ii. viii. 21 Wading within the Ouse, he dealt his Blows, And sent them, rolling, to the Tiding Humber. 1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme p. xiv The Isle of Axholme..admirably situated on the banks of a tiding river. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.¹1069n.²1593adj.1622
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