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▪ I. reˈvolting, vbl. n.
[-ing1.]
The action of the verb; rebellion, insurrection.
1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 443 Fardinando alledgeth the revoltinge of..divers Townes from him. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 478 Sundrie names, which do impart and signifie..a fault, an error, a reuolting. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 144 For which his reuolting, Othoman presently gaue him an ensigne. 1612Selden Illustr. Drayton's Poly-olb. ix, After uncertain fortune of war, on both sides, and revolting of Southwales. 1898Daily News 25 June 6/3 The peasant's revolting against the noble is easily explained.
▪ II. reˈvolting, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
1. That revolts or rebels; insurgent, rebellious.
1593Shakes. Rich. II, iii. iii. 163 Our sighes..shall lodge the Summer Corne, And make a Dearth in this reuolting Land. 1595― John iii. i. 257 Let the Church our Mother breathe her curse..on her reuolting sonne. 1611Bible Jer. v. 23 But this people hath a reuolting and a rebellious heart. 1842Manning Serm. (1848) I. xiii. 182 We..shall best spread His kingdom in an evil and revolting world. 1872W. Hanna Resurrection of Dead 79 This last revolting province in the domains of the Most High.
2. That repels; repulsive, disgusting.
1806A. Knox Rem. (1844) I. 63 Nothing, having the Christian name, could be more uncouth or revolting. 1849Maitland Ess. 67 There is, to us, something so revolting in the very idea. 1863Longfellow Wayside Inn, Robt. Sicily 101 In the corner, a revolting shape, Shivering and chattering sat the wretched ape. 1890Sat. Rev. 12 Apr. 446/1 The revolting inflictions which were abolished in 1814.
absol.1888Stevenson Pulvis et Umbra i, This mountain mass of the revolting and the inconceivable.
Hence reˈvoltingly adv.
1835Hood Poetry, Prose, & Worse xxxiii, With gore made revoltingly florid. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. xiv. ii. (1864) IX. 74 Its adoration in its intensity became revoltingly profane. 1876Meredith Beauch. Career xxxii, A confused recollection..surged up in her mind revoltingly. |