trowingn.
/ˈtrəʊɪŋ/ Obsolete or archaic.
The action of trow v.; belief; faith, creed; opinion, notion, idea. †to trowing, to be believed, worthy of belief (cf. to trow at trow v. 3c).
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > [noun]
ylevec888
levec950
trowing1303
creancec1380
believingc1384
credencea1393
acceptationa1425
beliefc1425
acceptance1533
leving1533
credency1648
creed1819
society > faith > aspects of faith > [noun] > person(s) having
ileaffulOE
leaffulc1225
trowing1303
priestc1350
levera1400
trowera1400
believer?a1425
acknowledger1560
professor1597
credent1626
affiera1641
faithfullist1653
bhakta1828
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 498 For whan þou trowyst yn a fals þyng Þe deuyl hyt shewyþ for þat trowyng.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 401 Nectanabus seide þis sawe, and was a wicche, and þerfore it is nevere þe bettre to trowynge.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 89 So seiþ martilogie, þat is more to trowynge [L. credendum] þan cronicles of auctours þat beeþ nouȝt i-knowe.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 195 It is nouȝt to trowynge [L. opinandum] þat þis Iohn is Iohn the Ermyte.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 25088 To haf wit santes communing; þis es a pointe of vr truing [Gött. truyng, Fairf. trowing].
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxxiv. 154 Þ ai be of diuerse lawes and diuerse trowyngs.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 5 Thre trowingis or opiniouns ben causis..of manie..errouris.
a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. c. f. cxxxiv/2 By the thynges passed he had some trowynge of those that were to come.
c1570 in Redforde Play Wit & Sc. (Shaks. Soc.) 57 Ever in trowing and never in knowinge.
Derivatives
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > [adjective] > believing
trowinga1400
credent1604
professing1651
believing1762
society > faith > aspects of faith > [adjective] > having faith
leaffulOE
ileaffulOE
belieffula1200
faithfulc1384
trowinga1400
faitheda1413
believing1442
fiable1483
professant1621
professing1651
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18719 Þe truand [Fairf. trawande] and þe baptist bath þai sal be saue.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 61 Crist is end of þe lawe to riȝtfulnes to ilk man trowing.
1483 Cath. Angl. 394/2 Trowinge, credulus.
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