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▪ I. chiding, vbl. n.|ˈtʃaɪdɪŋ|
[OE. cíding, cídung f. chide v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. chide.
†1. Quarrelling with angry words, contention; vehement expression of displeasure. Obs.
1340Ayenb. 30 Þer is uerst chidinge and þanne wreþe. 1388Wyclif Ex. xvii. 7 For the chidyng of the sones of Israel. c1440Promp. Parv. 74 Chydynge, contencio, litigacio. 1549Coverdale Erasm. Par. 1 Cor. 20 Nor are we..to lyue in sedicion and chyding, but to lyue in peace and concorde. 1656Bramhall Replic. v. 199 To take away occasion of chiding from his Disciples. 1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) III. 141 There's no such joy as Chiding.
2. Scolding, reproof, rebuke.
c893K. ælfred Oros. iv. xii. §2 For his cidinge and þurh his lare. a1000Psalms (Spelman, Trin. MS.) ciii. 8 [civ. 7] (Bosw.) Of cydunge ðinre hi fleoþ. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xi. 415 Shal neuere chalangynge ne chydynge chaste a man so sone As shal shame. 1535Coverdale Ps. xvii[i]. 15 The foundacions of the round worlde were discovered at thy chiding (o Lorde). 1697Bp. Patrick Comm. Ex. iv. 14 No Punishment followed his anger but only a Chiding. 1774Mrs. Chapone Improv. Mind II. 74 Nothing so much weakens authority as frequent chiding. 1877Bryant Litt. People of Snow 283 As they came With gentle chidings ready on their lips.
3. Brawling or angry noise: spec. of fox-hounds. Also fig. of wind, waters, etc.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. iv. i. 120 They bayed the Beare With hounds of Sparta; neuer did I heare Such gallant chiding. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. ii. xii. 42 The chiding of the winds and waters. 1711Budgell Spect. No. 116 ⁋7 The Chiding of the Hounds. 1818Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xxi, The angry chidings of the inhabitants of the hive. 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. v, The chiding of the sharp-tongued bell.
▪ II. ˈchiding, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That chides, that gives loud and vehement utterance to displeasure; brawling, scolding, rebuking.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 143 Þe prude, þe fordrunkene, þe chidinde sculen beon iwarpen ine eche pine. c1386Chaucer Wife's Prol. 279 Droppyng hous, and eek smoke, And chydyng wyves maken me to fle. 1568Bible (Bishops') Prov. xxi. 19 Better to dwel in the wildernesse, then with a chiding and an angry woman. 1608Shakes. Per. iii. i. 32 Thou hast as chiding a nativity, As fire, air, water, earth, and heaven can make. 1648Herrick Hesper. (Grosart) I. 26 Chiding streams betray small depth below. 1800Bloomfield Farmer's Boy, Autumn 258 The sound Of distant sportsmen, and the chiding hound.
Hence ˈchidingly adv., ˈchidingness.
1552Huloet, Chidingly, or after the manner of chydynge. 1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 22 How often haue I..chidingly communed with thy soule? 1677Gilpin Dæmonol. (1867) 202 Gregory the Great writes chidingly to Serenus, bishop of Marseilles. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. V. xxiii. 600 Mayne..wrote chidingly to Washington. 1880M. B. Betham-Edwards Forestalled I. i. ix. 144 Smiling on his young wife with pensive chidingness. |