voyagingn.
/ˈvɔɪɪdʒɪŋ/ a. The action of the verb (now usually of journeying by sea).
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wayfaring1536
gate-going?1555
thorough-faring?1575
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society > travel > travel by water > [noun] > navigation by sea
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sea-voyaging1856
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Voyagement, a voyaging, trauelling, iourneying.
1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. A viaging, een reysinge.
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 8 He was Monarch of far more Territories than ever he toucht at in all his Voyagings.
1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 165 Native of a port and given to voyaging.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xvii. 182 I deemed it best to keep up the appearance of ordinary voyaging.
1889 W. C. Russell Marooned I. xiv. 264 The marine habits of thought I had carried away with me from my early voyagings.
b. transferred and figurative.
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1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. vii. vii. 442 Our poor Convention, after such voyaging, just entering harbour, so to speak, has struck on the bar.
1842 C. Kingsley Lett. (1878) I. 112 We will not listen when men tell us that we can reach Him by weary voyaging on the ocean of intellect.
1862 G. Long tr. M. Aurelius Thoughts ix. §30. 156 Look down from above on the countless herds of men and their countless solemnities, and the infinitely varied voyagings in storms and calms.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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