conqueringn.
/ˈkɒŋkərɪŋ/ a. The action of conquer v. (Now chiefly gerundial.)
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society > armed hostility > victory > [noun] > state of being victorious
siȝea1200
conqueringa1340
victordom1526
triumphancy1592
victorship1612
victoriousness1705
society > armed hostility > victory > [noun] > conquering or defeating
vanquishinga1325
conquestc1325
wainc1330
conqueringa1340
overcoming1340
conquest1384
expugnation1429
reduction1429
profligationc1475
debellation1526
defeating1536
conquessingc1550
conquesting1555
vanquishment1593
conquerment1597
eviction1602
reducement1609
debellatinga1626
debelling1651
triumphingc1850
lathering1865
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter 522 Takyn prisoneres in conqueryng.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 91 Conqueste or conquerynge, conquestus.
1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons Sign. ** All which..daungers of conquering..have proceeded chiefly through the negligence of their Princes.
1838 R. Southey March to Moscow in Poet. Wks. VI. 218 For as for his conquering Russia..do it he would.
b. colloquial. The act of playing ‘conkers’ (see conker n. a). rare.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > conkers, etc.
cob-nutc1440
jobnut1659
conquering1821
conkers1877
1821 R. Southey Let. 28 Dec. in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1849) I. 55 One..amusement, which I never saw or heard of elsewhere, was greatly in vogue at this school [sc. Corston]. It was performed with snail shells, by placing them against each other, point to point, and pressing till the one was broken in, or sometimes both. This was called conquering... A great conqueror was prodigiously prized and coveted.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
conqueringadj.
a. That conquers; victorious.
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society > armed hostility > victory > [adjective] > conquering or defeating
conquerous1571
vanquishing1611
conqueringa1616
victoring1624
conquerant1638
defeating1661
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [adjective] > winning > victorious
victorious1474
triumphanta1513
triumphing?a1513
conquering1850
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) ii. i. 26 God is our Fortresse, in whose conquering name Let vs resolue to scale their flinty bulwarkes. View more context for this quotation
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xlii. 314 Submission to a conquering Enemy.
1747 T. Morell Joshua (Chorus) See, the conquering hero comes.
1850 R. W. Emerson Plato in Representative Men ii. 75 A pitiless disputant,..the bounds of whose conquering intelligence no man had ever reached.
1872 J. Morley Voltaire ii. 51 A descendant of the conquering Franks.
b. That decides a contest.
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1891 N.E.D. at Conquering Mod. They are now playing the conquering game e.g. in a chess tournament.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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