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▪ I. questioning, vbl. n.|ˈkwɛstjənɪŋ|
[f. question v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb., in various senses.
a1635Sibbes Confer. Christ & Mary (1656) 94 The ministeriall questioning of sinners. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 208 The questioning of their true endowments. 1776Johnson in Boswell Mar. (at Lichfield), Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. 1861Geo. Eliot Silas M. 48 Silas now told his story under frequent questioning.
attrib.1837Whewell Hist. Induct. Sc. I. 25 The vigour and confidence of the questioning spirit.
2. With a and pl.: An instance of this.
1607Hieron Wks. I. 266 An aduised questioning with himselfe, touching the value of this offered treasure. 1677Gilpin Demonol. (1867) 303 Unseemly questionings of his goodness and compassion. 1803–6Wordsw. Ode Intim. Immort. 142 Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things. 1885Sir R. Baggallay in Law Rep. 15 Queen's Bench Div. 59 There are four species of questionings to which the debtor is to be subject.
▪ II. questioning, ppl. a.|ˈkwɛstjənɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That questions, in senses of the vb.
1801C. Smith Lett. Solit. Wand. I. 234 Under..the questioning eye of his father. 1818Shelley Rev. Islam v. xii, Earnest countenances on me shed The light of questioning looks. 1858Longfellow M. Standish vi. 31 Like a ghost that is speechless, Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence.
Hence ˈquestioningly adv., in a questioning manner; inquiringly.
1863B. Taylor H. Thurston I. 87 As he looked keenly and questioningly at the little figure. |