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▪ I. reaving, reiving, vbl. n.|ˈriːvɪŋ| [f. as prec. + -ing1.] The action of reave v.1 In recent use chiefly in Sc. form reiving.
c1122O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 1116 Wurdon maneᵹa unrada & ræfunga. c1205Lay. 2647 Þes wes þe aereste king, þe ferde vt to ræuing [v.r. reuing], þat ouer sæ wende. a1300Cursor M. 28797 Vr lauerd..wil na gift of oker, reuing, ne o thift. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 495 Al þe ȝere was in þe lond robbynge and manslauȝter, and revynge. c1440Promp. Parv. 432/1 Revynge of reste, inquietacio. 1567Turberv. Epit. etc. 101 For it a Friendly hart..In value doe not passe The Ring, you may reprooue The reauing of the same. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. iii. 187 Trubling the west seyes in thift, ruging and reiueng. 1851Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. I. viii. 684 They must help themselves..by robbing and reiving. ▪ II. reaving, reiving, ppl. a.|ˈriːvɪŋ| [f. as prec. + -ing2.] That robs or reaves.
c1000ælfric Saints' Lives I. 328 Hi synd wiþ-innan reafiᵹende wulfas. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lix. 2 A refying sone of rakyng Muris. 1816Scott Old Mort. iv, The twa reiving loons drave the cow frae the gudewife. 1828― F.M. Perth viii, A party of reiving night-walkers. 1858–61J. Brown Horæ Subs. (1882) III. 417 His ancestors were of the sturdy border stock, reiving pastoral lairds. |