wryingn.1
dialect.
(See quot. a1825.)
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a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Wrying, covering, of bed~clothes, &c., not of apparel.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
wryingn.2
/ˈrʌɪɪŋ/ 1. The action of twisting, wringing, or writhing; an instance of this.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [noun]
throwingOE
wringinga1375
twining1398
wrenching1398
wresting1398
writhing?a1400
wrying1566
wreathing1571
convolution1597
twinding1602
contortion1611
distorquement1628
distortion1718
twisting1725
quirling1754
circumgyration1843
1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. f. 109, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe The taynt being made somewhat ful, with continuall turning and wrying of it.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xiv. sig. Y3v A certaine wrying I had of my necke.
c1595 Capt. Wyatt in G. F. Warner Voy. R. Dudley to W. Indies (1899) 42 The motion and wryinge of his mouth.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tortuement, a crooking,..wrying, writhing.
1888 G. Gissing Life's Morning III. xx. 161 Wilfrid [spoke] with a little wrying of the lips.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > [noun]
wrestingc1444
pervertinga1450
corruptiona1513
straining1528
writhing?1532
hacking1539
violence1546
racking1556
wrying1562
wringing1565
detorting1579
wrest1581
detortion1598
wrench1603
torture1605
distorting1610
violencing1612
refraction1614
misacception1629
distortion1650
distorture1709
misacceptation1721
torturing1753
verbicide1826
stretch1849
twisting1890
queeringness1955
1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 20 We allegeit na thing..bot sinceirlie the expres Word of God, but wrysting, wrying, gloissing, or cloking.
a1598 R. Rollock Lect. Passion (1616) xxv. 237 We must not thinke, Brethren, that this is any wrying and wresting of the old Scripture.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [noun] > deviation from straight course
turna1400
circuit1483
circumferencea1549
wrying1592
extravagation1611
extravagancya1616
extravagance1644
deviation1646
outstepping1656
left1675
detour1738
1592 G. Babington Certaine Comfortable Notes Genesis (iii.) f. 19 Wryings and turnings from the matter will not serue, minsings and shiftings before hym were neuer currant.
1604 G. Babington Comf. Notes: Exod. i. (Exod.) iii. 45 How hard it is, to leaue a wonted wrying from the right way.
1879 G. M. Hopkins Let. 9 Apr. (1935) 78 It seems to me to hit the mark it aims at without any wrying.
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