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▪ I. sighing, vbl. n.|ˈsaɪɪŋ|
[f. sigh v.]
1. The action of the verb; sorrow, grief.
αa1300E.E. Psalter xxxvii. 9 Lauerd,..fra þe noght hid es mi sighinge. a1400Hymns Virgin (1867) 27 My loue is euere in siȝinge While y dwelle in þis way. 1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy i. 2295 Whan þat þei were to-gidre sette, Þis Medea with syȝing first abreyde. 1535Coverdale Isaiah lxi. 2, I might geue vnto them..ioyful oyntment for sighinge. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 365 A plague of sighing and griefe, it blowes a man vp like a Bladder. 1629Milton Hymn Nativ. xx, From haunted spring..The parting Genius is with sighing sent. 1703Rowe Ulysses iv. i, Your Breasts that heave with sighing. a1827Good Study Med. (1829) I. 510 Often accompanied, in sighing, with deep and long drawn intonations, which we call groans. 1877M. Foster Physiol. ii. ii. (1879) 356 Sighing is a deep and long-drawn inspiration chiefly through the nose followed by a somewhat shorter, but correspondingly large expiration.
attrib.a1300E.E. Psalter vi. 6 (Vesp. MS.), I swanke in mi sighinge-stede. 1603Petowe Eliza's Funerall A iv, Your sighing weedes put off. 1615Chapman Odyss. xxi. 15 In the quiver were Arrows a number, sharp and sighing gear. 1746Francis tr. Horace, Ep. i. vii. 37 And o'er the flowing Bowl, in sighing Strain, [give me] To talk of wanton Cinera's Disdain.
βc1375Sc. Leg. Saints i. (Peter) 666 Cristne men þat saw þis thinge, faste cuth gret with ser sichinge. 1528Lyndesay Dreme 333 Dolour Infinyte,..With sobbyng, syching, sorrow, and with syte. a1586Montgomerie Misc. Poems lii, Oursett with inwart siching sair. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 224 Was nocht but grief..And sichan' 'mang the monkish bands.
b. With a and pl. An instance of this; a sigh.
a1300Cursor M. 1088 Quen he eie a-pon him kest, A sighing of his hert brest. c1380Sir Ferumb. 1040 Fyrumbras..made a grete syȝyng. a1400–50Alexander 5052 With sare sighingis & sadd for sake of his wirdis. c1440Gesta Rom. ii. 6 As he lay in a certeyne tyme by the fire, in siȝyngis and gryntingis. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 59 b, Shewynge the same with swete teares and often syghynges. a1568A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) x. 53 Thair is nocht wie Can estimie My sorrow and my sichingis sair. 1651Wittie tr. Primrose's Pop. Err. iii. 158 Broth made of an old cock..is good for long feavers, sighings [etc.]. 1877M. Arnold New Sirens 70 Round our hearts with long caresses, With low sighings, [1849 sighs hath] Silence stole.
2. transf. Of the wind, etc.
1653Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year v. 60 The poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern winde. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xxx, No sound was heard, except the sighing of the wind among the battlements. 1817Shelley Pr. Athanase ii. ii. 43 The far sighings of yon piny dale Made vocal by some wind. 1842S. Lover Handy Andy xxi, The gentle sighing of a broken pane of glass. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey II. 258 The sighing of the wind in the trees.
▪ II. sighing, ppl. a.|ˈsaɪɪŋ|
[f. sigh v.]
1. Accompanied by, uttered with, a sigh. Also transf.
c1440Found. St. Bartholomew's (E.E.T.S.) 22 This man, cummynge a-forne the Auter.., with sighynge terys his mercy mekely besowght. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xvi. (Percy Soc.) 68 And than to hym..I did complayne, wyth syghing teres depe. 1633P. Fletcher Elisa ii. l, Sleep sighing words; stop all your discontenting; Sleep beaten breast [etc.]. 1821Shelley Adonais xvi, Wan they stand and sere.., With dew all turned to tears; odour, to sighing ruth. 1863I. Williams Baptistery ii. xxix. (1874) 155 Happy he, when..earth's sighing gladness Wrings the heart no more.
2. Of persons, etc.: That sigh(s). Also transf.
1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, ii. v. 117 My sighing brest, shall be thy Funerall bell. 1753–4Richardson Grandison VI. xxxix. 255 In our happiest prospects, the sighing heart will confess imperfection. 1781Cowper Expost. 309 Successive loads succeeding broils impose, And sighing millions prophesy the close. 1810J. Porter Scottish Chiefs xliii, I am no gloomy, no sighing recluse. 1850Mrs. Browning Sonn. fr. Portuguese ix, To let thee..hear the sighing years Re-sighing on my lips renunciative.
b. transf. Of the wind, trees, etc.
1746Hervey Medit. (1818) 192 Let sighing Gales breathe..in harmonious consonance to Him. 1821Shelley Hellas 178 A wind Will rush out of the sighing pine-forest. 1860Kingsley Misc. II. 139 Between the high banks of sighing reed. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 302 The sighing, whispering, sad-voiced water-oaks. |