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▪ I. revelling, vbl. n.|ˈrɛvəlɪŋ|
[f. revel v.1 + -ing1.]
Riotous or disorderly merry-making or festivity; a revel; also, great delight or joy.
c1470Gol. & Gaw. 1343 With reualing and reuay all the oulk hale. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxliii. 284 There they casten to slee the kyng in here reuelyng. 1591Spenser M. Hubberd 694 All that els pertaines to reveling. 1606Dekker 7 Deadly Sinnes Wks. (Grosart) II. 67 What a weeke of Sinfull Reueling hath heere bin. 1665Manley Grotius' Low-C. Wars 651 As the Court grew burthensome even in time of Peace by Princely Revellings. 1751G. Lavington Enthus. Meth. & Papists iii. (1754) 75 His Brother Thomas,..who from following Revellings and Hurlings became a Methodist Preacher. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey ii. vi, The young scholar in the revelling of his enthusiasm.
attrib.1594Marlowe & Nashe Dido 1075, I thinke it was the diuels reuelling night. 1652J. Collinges Caveat (1653) iii. 17 It..was revelling time, the time for drinking.
▪ II. ˈrevelling, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That revels.
c1475Lerne or be Lewde in Babees Bk. (1868) 10 [Be not] To Riotous, to Revelyng, ne Rage nat to muche. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) IV. 42 Youth and health, and a revelling flow of blood and spirits. 1816W. Hollar Dance of Death 2 Holbein..was given to wine and revelling company. 1892Ld. Lytton King Poppy vii. 53 Thro' its roses, and its revelling leaves. |