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▪ I. remaining, vbl. n.|rɪˈmeɪnɪŋ|
[f. remain v. + -ing1.]
†1. That which remains; a remainder. Obs.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints viii. (Philip) 89 Prestis & deknys þare mad he.. al þe remaynyne to do þat efferyte þare ordyr to. Ibid. xviii. (Mary Egypt) 855 Þe remaynynge þane of þat day I sped me faste one myn way. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. li. i, Clense still my spotts..Till staines and spotts in me leave noe remaynings. 1621Lady M. Wroth Urania 174 They went to eate that poore remaining that there was left them. 1624Capt. Smith Virginia (1629) 212 Such like as they spare of the remainings.
2. The fact of staying or continuing in a place or state; † also, place of staying or residing.
1549Compl. Scot. Prol. 8 The prouest of the prouince quhar ther remanyng vas. 1575Reg. Privy Council Scot. II. 447 The saidis Margaret and Issobell wer in the cumpany and remaning of the said George. 1796Instr. & Reg. Cavalry (1813) 114 Unless the intended and immediate formation of the line requires their remaining where they are. 1855Pusey Doctr. Real Presence Note A. 31 The remaining, then, of the ‘elements in their natural substances’ was an open question.
▪ II. reˈmaining, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That remains, in various senses.
1513Douglas æneis iii. ii. 38 We the beseik that..thou grant ws eik successioun, And for to duell in ane remanand toun. 1645Evelyn Diary 23 Jan., The 3 remaining fountaines which give denomination to this Church. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xxiv. ⁋19 He..doubles the loose half of the Leather over the remaining Nail'd-on half. 1748Hartley Observ. Man i. i. §2. 57 These remaining Sensations grow feebler and feebler, till they vanish. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. xii. I. 334 The remaining actions he intrusted to the care of his lieutenants. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xv. III. 596 A treason, the consciousness of which threw a dark shade over all his remaining years. 1885Athenæum 4 July 9/1 With..increasing injuries to the few remaining defences. |