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▪ I. ˈdiffering, vbl. n.
[f. differ v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb differ, q.v.; difference.
1822E. Nathan Langreath I. 151 You must excuse so material a differing in our opinions.
†2. Her. = difference n. 4 b. Obs.
1592W. Wyrley Armorie 7 Another matter..to be reformed, is the maner of differings.
†3. A disagreement; = difference n. 3.
1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 266 [To] decide our differings in Church and State. 1690W. Walker Idiomat. Anglo Lat. 220 Hence grow great differings (magnæ discordiæ). 1709Chandler Eff. agst. Bigotry 16 Their little Differings should not occasion the abating of their mutual Love.
▪ II. ˈdiffering, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That differs: see the verb.
1. in gen. sense: = different a. Very common in 17th and early 18th c.; now rare or Obs.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. v. Pr. v. 131 Dyuerse and differyng substaunces. 1598J. Manwood Lawes Forest x. §7 (1615) 79/1 An especiall manner of proceeding..which is differing from the proceeding [etc.]. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. iv. §2 (1873) 28 Whose writings were in a differing style and form. c1645J. Howell Lett. II. xii, Which makes me to be of a differing opinion to that Gentleman. 1666Boyle Orig. Formes & Qual., Very differing from that pure whitenesse to be observ'd in the neighbouring Snow lately fallen. 1702Pope Sappho 43 Turtles and doves of diff'ring hues unite. 1719De Foe Crusoe ii. xii. (1858) 547 A differing name from that which our Portuguese pilot gave it. 1763Sir W. Jones Caissa Poems (1777) 128 A polish'd board, with differing colours grac'd. 1802H. Martin Helen of Glenross II. 126, I was so changed by dress..as to appear..essentially differing to what I had ever been.
2. Disagreeing in opinion or statement; discrepant, discordant.
1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 31 Hauing much a-doe to accord differing Writers. 1677W. Hubbard Narrative 68 There are differing accounts about the manner of his taking and by whom. 1858Martineau Stud. Chr. 280 The differing voices of the intellect and the soul.
†3. At variance, disputing, quarrelling. Obs.
c1611Chapman Iliad ix. 543 Then sent they the chief priests of Gods with offer'd gifts t' atone His differing fury. 1700Dryden Pal. & Arc. Ded. to Duchess Ormond 152 O daughter of the Rose, whose cheeks unite The differing titles of the Red and White. |