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▪ I. thronging, vbl. n.|ˈθrɒŋɪŋ|
[f. throng v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb throng; pressing; crowding.
13..Cursor M. 22683 (Cott.) Wit thranging sal þai samen threst. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Mark v. 32 b, So was he payned with the throngyng of the people. 1581Mulcaster Positions xxxix. (1887) 196 Why there is such thronging of all people that way. 1679Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) I. 7 Mr. Oates preached at Wood-street church..and there was great thronging. 1724P. Walker Peden in Biogr. Presbyt. (1827) I. 153 Such a Thronging to the fearful Pit.
▪ II. ˈthronging, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That throngs; crowding or crowded; assembling or assembled in large numbers; going in a crowd.
1582Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 67 Theare weare the enymyes with thronging cluster asembled. 1600Holland Livy i. xiv. 11 All at once the enemies in thrunging manner sallied forth. 1697Potter Antiq. Greece i. viii. (1715) 41 Too weak to support the vast weight of thronging Multitudes. 1827Keble Chr. Y., S. Matt. v, Such brief rest As thronging cares afford. 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxiv. 33 Thronging hosts uncounted, a company joyous approaching.
Hence ˈthrongingly adv.
1624Gee Hold Fast 52 A glorious spectacle..fit for vs to step out of our dores and throngingly to behold. 1731Bailey, Throngingly, crowdingly. |