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▪ I. differencing, vbl. n.|ˈdɪfərənsɪŋ|
[f. prec. vb. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb to difference (in various senses).
1610J. Guillim Heraldry i. i. (1660) 4 Names were instituted for differencing of each person from other severally. 1659Fuller App. Inj. Innoc. (1840) 617 Writers of civil dissentions are sometimes necessitated, for differencing of parties, to use those terms they do not approve. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1866) 340 The mechanism of the understanding, the whole functions of which consist in individualization, in outlines and differencings by quantity, quality, and relation. 1865Edin. Rev. Apr. 339 Differencing is..a far more important part of Scottish than of English heraldry.
▪ II. ˈdifferencing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That differences or makes a difference; distinguishing, differentiating; discriminating: see the verb.
1652J. Pawson Vind. Free Grace 24 Differencing grace. 1657Baxter Acc. Pres. Th. 5 Augustine who rose up against Pelagius..in defence of differencing free grace. 1660W. Secker Nonsuch Prof. 16 Differencing mercy calls for differencing duty. 1768Phil. Trans. LIX. 499 There is in each [Chinese] character a distinctive or differencing Pou. 1845Blackw. Mag. LVII. 398 The differencing conditions which qualify the rule.
Hence ˈdifferencingly adv.
a1640W. Fenner Christ's Alarm (1650) 28 To preach differencingly, to distinguish between the precious and the vile. |