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▪ I. deˈvouring, vbl. n.
[f. devour v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb devour.
1382Wyclif Tobit xii. 3 Me myself fro the deuouring of the fish he delyuerede. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiii. xxvi. (1495) 457 They byte other wyth vnresonable swalowynge and deuourynge. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iv. (1586) 187 b, Many times, they [bees] die of a disease that they call the great devouring. 1659Gentl. Calling (1696) 70 The more ravenous devourings of the Vulture.
▪ II. devouring, ppl. a.
[f. devour v. + -ing2.]
That devours, in various senses of the word.
1382Wyclif Isa. xxix. 6 Gret vois of whirlewind, and of tempest, and of flaume of fijr deuourende [1388 fier deuowrynge]. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. vii. 48 His biting Sword, and his devouring Speare. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 140 Where the two famous Rivers Tygris..and Euphrates..become one with the same devouring Gulph. 1724R. Falconer Voy. (1769) 63 For fear some devouring Creature should come and seize me. 1751Jortin Serm. (1771) VII. i. 21 Avoid the devouring deep. 1810Southey Kehama i. xiv, Devouring flames have swallow'd all. 1818Shelley Rev. Islam viii. xix, Ye are the spoil Which Time thus marks for the devouring tomb.
Hence deˈvouringly adv.; deˈvouringness.
1552Huloet, Deuourynglye, voraciter. 1600F. Walker Sp. Mandeville 23 a, It was a thing of admiration, to see how deuouringly he eat and drank. 1611Florio, Diuoracità, deuouringnesse, greedinesse. 1837Campbell in Athenæum 11 Mar. 173/3 My Mauritanian beauties are devouringly fond of puppies. They gobble them up by litters in their couscousou. 1887Mrs. C. Praed Bond of Wedlock I. vii. 184 His eyes fixed devouringly upon her. |