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▪ I. voting, vbl. n.|ˈvəʊtɪŋ|
Also 6 Sc. votting; 7 Sc. woitting.
[f. vote v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of giving a vote.
1575in Maitl. Cl. Misc (1840) I. 113 After lang ressonyng, with votting past thairin{ddd}the last kirk hes ordanit [etc.]. 1633Sc. Acts, Chas. I (1870) V. 95/2 To haue voitt in parliament..and in all vther lawfull meittings.. quhair burghes royall..hes place of sitting and woitting. 1649Ogilby æneis xi. (1684) 364 Let him not threaten, and make Voting free. 1711in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. V. 121 The Commons's voteing of the throne of England vacant. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. 165 Some, who are suspected to have no will of their own, are excluded from voting. 1822A. Ranken Hist. France IX. x. §2. 259 The sittings and votings of the states should be together, or separately. 1861Ld. Brougham Brit. Const. App. iii. 438 The voting was generally by the bean, or ballot in later times. 1885Manch. Exam. 20 May 4/7 The voting for the Chancellorship of Dublin University took place yesterday.
2. attrib., as voting age, voting-place, voting urn; voting machine, a vote-recorder; voting-paper, a paper on which a vote is recorded; a ballot-paper.
1846Keightley Notes on Virgil Bucol. i. 34 Saeptum was originally any inclosure, whence the Saepta or voting-place of the tribes at Rome. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Voting-paper, a balloting-paper; a proxy. 1861Mill Repr. Govt. 140 It is therefore provided that an elector may deliver a voting paper containing other names. 1880McCarthy Own Times lii. IV. 109 The voting-paper principle was abandoned. 1900Daily News 28 Nov. 7/7 The adoption of the voting machine would do away with all the delay in counting and checking the ballot papers. 1937V. Bartlett This is my Life x. 165 That mass of people..saluting with religious intensity the dustbin-like voting urns. 1966M. Woodhouse Tree Frog viii. 60 He must have reached voting age, but you couldn't tell by looking at him. 1978Listener 2 Feb. 145/2 Those recently reaching voting age. 1978K. J. Dover Greek Homosexuality iii. 111 The funnel of the voting-urn used in a lawcourt.
▪ II. ˈvoting, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
†1. Votive, dedicatory. Obs.—1
1630Hakewill Apol. (ed. 2) 293 With Scythicke piety their aged Sier Let striplings tumble from the voting bridge.
2. That possesses or exercises the right of suffrage.
1830Jas. Mill in A. Bain Life vii. (1882) 351 They are the class by whom chiefly the moral character of the voting classes is formed. 1837W. E. Forster in T. W. Reid Life (1888) I. 93, I saw some dreadful cases of voting drunken people, both Whig and Tory. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. v. lxxxviii. III. 194 The voting population seemed determined to give its whole attention to the Ring for one day at least. |