a1400 K. Alis. (Laud) 3737 Riȝth also he was arise, Of his woundyng he was agrise.

a1400–50 Wars Alexander 4795 Þare was hurling on hiȝe,..Quat of wrestling of wormes, & wonding of kniȝtis.

a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 52 If any man..be smyten in any party of þe legge violently and without wondyng of þe skynne.

1518 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1911) II. 140 I ame Indytyd thear for beatyng and wondyng of one John Holtt.

1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades i. 2 Nine dayes Apollo bent, and shot, and them with wounding sped.

1633 P. Fletcher Piscatorie Eclogs v. xvi. 32 in Purple Island How can thy eye most sharp in wounding be, In seeing dull?

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. vi. iv. 175 An Indictment of Assault, Battery, and wounding, was instantly prefered against Tom. View more context for this quotation

1799 W. Nicol Pract. Planter 225 All wounding, in pruning, should be performed on, or towards the extremities of boughs which [etc.].

1842 H. E. Manning Serm. xviii. 267 The sharp inward wounding of the soul.

1890 Retrospect. Med. 102 275 All kinds of head injury from slight concussion to compound comminuted fractures of the skull with wounding of the brain substance.

1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades iv. 65 That this your wounding got, Which irkes you so, he should delay.

1595 G. Markham Most Honorable Trag. Sir R. Grinuile sig. F6 At length, the Maister..hath procurd The Knight discend, to haue his woundings curd.

1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 43 The great physician of sin-sick souls..had healed my own woundings.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 50 Wið spere wundunges [Scribe B wundinde] word..werreð lecherie..vpon þe lauedies chastete.

c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxiv. 28 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 72 Their own tongues to their own wo Shall all their wounding sharpnes bend.

1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. K1^v Crosbowes and deadly wounding darts. View more context for this quotation

?1638 H. Wotton in L. P. Smith Life & Lett. Sir H. Wotton (1907) II. 384 You have left in him illos aculeos,..for you are indeed a wounding man, as my servant Nicholas saith.

1648 J. Quarles Fons Lachrymarum 13 Oh what a wounding sorrow 'tis to think How all will be destroyd.

1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity iii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 486 His Journey to pursue, Where wounding Thorns, and cursed Thistles grew.

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 32 Forms Of furies, driving by upon the wounding storms.

1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. III. 176 To a simple unsophisticated girl, this must surely have been cutting and wounding.

1915 F. S. Oliver Ordeal by Battle iii. i. 181 The result must necessarily be wounding to the credit of popular institutions all the world over.

1887 Temple Bar May 144 What she had said to him gently, was said now roughly, woundingly.

1919 J. D. Beresford Jervaise Comedy xv. 272 What she implied was woundingly true of that old self of mine which had so recently come under my observation and censure.