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▪ I. ˈslighting, vbl. n.
[f. slight v. + -ing1.]
†1. The action of levelling (ground). Obs.
1613Markham Eng. Husb. i. i. ix. (1635) 50 A Rouler..is for this purpose of sleighting and smoothing of grounds of great use and profit. 1615― Eng. Housew. ii. v. (1668) 130 So fine a mould as you can possibly break with your harrows, clotting beetles, or sleighting.
2. The action of razing or demolishing. Obs. exc. Hist.
1640Kirkcudbright War-Committee's Minute Bk. (1855) 66 In obedience of the warrand..for slighting of the hows of the Threive. c1645Tullie Siege of Carlisle (1840) 14 Daily skirmishes..and now and then the sleighting of a work. 1707in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 39 The immediate slighting the said castle and demolishing..the outworks thereof. 1936Times Lit. Suppl. 6 June 479/4 In spite of Cromwellian ‘slighting’ and the quarrying of local builders and road-makers, so much..still remains. 1977H. R. Loyn Vikings in Britain v. 95 Evidence of possible slighting of fortifications at Cricklade and Cadbury, may well indicate the confidence of the new régime at least in Wessex under Cnut and Earl Godwin.
3. The action of treating with disdain, disregard, or indifference.
1622Fletcher Beggar's Bush iii. iv, Yet will ye love me? Tell me but how I have deserv'd your slighting? 1659C. Noble Mod. Answ. Immod. Queries 6 To charge him with neglects and slightings and disregardings to his friends. 1711Brit. Apollo No. 15. 2/1 She has return'd to her former Reservedness and..slighting of me. 1859Helps Friends in C. Ser. ii. II. v. 104 Prone to believe he is the subject of any intentional slighting.
4. The action of glossing over. ? Obs.
1617Hieron Wks. II. 325 My silence, my conniuence, my slighting ouer of these things.
▪ II. ˈslighting, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. Conveying or implying a slight; of a contemptuous or disdainful character.
1632B. Jonson Magn. Lady i. i, To hear yourself..glanced at In a few slighting terms. 1641Baker Chron., John 96 In this slighting humour he returnes into England. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 405 [It] was generally looked upon as a scornful slighting and very unfair way. 1825Scott Betrothed xviii, The Constable felt the full effect of this slighting reception. 1892Athenæum 21 May 658/2 A slighting allusion to one of his literary productions.
2. Acting contemptuously or disdainfully.
1684Roxb. Ball. (1886) VI. 85 Never did a slighting Lover So much cruelty discover As this Tyrant doth to me. a1697Aubrey Lives (1898) I. 277 A squeamish, disobliging, slighting, insolent, proud fellow. |