a1525 ( Coventry Leet Bk. (1908) II. 494 Be his longe defferynges, cautels, vexacions & troubles, he wold neuer haue conclucion.

1654 B. Oley in T. Jackson Exact Coll. Wks. Pref. to Rdr. sig. b That A Christian Reunion of hearts and minds may be the only Revenge and speedy Conclusion of all our Differings.

1690 W. Walker Idiomatologia Anglo-Lat. 220 Hence grow great differings (magnæ discordiæ).

1842 New Monthly Mag. Nov. 281 In spite of differings and I must say hashness [sic] on some points you will be delighted to hear I have at last got a letter from dear Gus.

1893 Leisure Hour 114/2 A marrow-bones and cleaver band..would perform a noisy serenade underneath the windows, whenever the ‘differings’ of husband and wife became audible to outsiders.

1921 E. M. Ingram Thing from Lake v. 83 They may have had the usual conjugal differings, neither of them being angelic.

2005 V. Cunningham in A. Dix & J. Taylor Figures of Heresy (2006) 4 They take their differings to awful extremes.

1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. H1 Is there eny grett differynge Bitwene theft and tythe gaderynge?

1648 J. Goodwin Νεοϕυτοπρεσβυτερος 59 That God indeed, is not onely the principall, but the sole cause of such differings as these between men and men, is more evident, that to be matter of doubt or question unto any man.

1756 W. Smith Christians' Encouragement to read Holy Script. 5 This does not prove the Scriptures not to be such a sufficient Rule, unless it were also shown that they are such Differings as are inconsistent with Men's Salvation.

1766 tr. S. A. D. Tissot Treat. Crime of Onan iii. x. 122 There can be no great differing in opinions about the essential method of the cure.

1822 E. Nathan Langreath I. 151 You must excuse so material a differing in our opinions.

a1862 G. W. Bethune Expository Lect. Heidelberg Catech. (1866) II. xlii. 398 One or the other of the differings would be an imperfection.

1927 Rotarian Aug. 30/2 Occasionally one could ascertain a differing of opinion as to the relief of a world both weary of war and on the brink of another.

2000 G. B. Swanson Moose, Goose & Kingdom of God xii. 135 A differing of interpretations doesn't necessarily mean that one is wrong.

1592 W. Wyrley True Vse Armorie 7 Another matter..to be reformed, is the maner of differings.

?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) v. pr. v. l. 4892 Dyuerse and differyng substaunces [L. diversis ac differentibus..substantiis].

1598 J. Manwood Treat. Lawes Forrest x. f. 60 A manner of proceeding..differing from the proceeding and punishment appointed.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. E3 Whose Writings were..in a differing Stile and fourme. View more context for this quotation

1666 R. Boyle Origine Formes & Qualities 177 Very differing from that pure Whitenesse to be observ'd in the neighbouring Snow lately fallen.

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 281 A differing Name from that which our Portugueze Pilot gave it.

1772 W. Jones Poems 153 A polish'd board with diff'ring colours grac'd.

1802 H. Martin Helen of Glenross II. 126 I was so changed by dress..as to appear..essentially differing to what I had ever been.

1880 W. Dinwiddie Times before Reformation xx. 369 A differing style may indicate a differing spirit.

1919 F. T. Jesse Sword of Deborah ix. 81 Of course, it takes differing temperaments differently. To some community life is little short of a nightmare.

1956 Life 17 Sept. 103 Five men, whose differing occupations sum up a way of life, all stand firm on segregation.

2010 Financial Times 3 Dec. 3/1 Russia and Quatar, countries of starkly differing sizes and populations..won the hotly contested races to stage the 2018 and 2022 Fifa World Cups.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. D1^v Hauing much a-doe to accord differing Writers.

1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. i. 21 Of latter writers differing accounts thereof are delivered by these.

1677 W. Hubbard Narr. Troubles with Indians New-Eng. 68 There are differing accounts about the manner of his taking and by whom.

1711 Secret Hist. Oct. Club 48 They had various Designs and differing views in this, tho' both agreed in the Means.

1787 Edinb. Mag. Nov. 339/1 No more do your differing opinions make the religion of Jesus a different thing from what it is.

1845 G. Aguilar Women of Israel II. v. i. 113 In alluding to these differing authorities, let it be remembered, that we do not interfere at all with the grand question at issue.

1891 Huddersfield Daily Chron. 19 Oct. 3/2 To satisfy the differing claims of these people is a task much beyond their powers.

1922 Northwestern Reporter 187 393/2 He confessed to the killing, but he told differing stories of the particulars thereof.

1970 Life 23 Oct. 64/2 They spoke of their experiences, the differing diagnoses, the physical and emotional difficulties imposed on the rest of the family.

2005 M. Kelly Seven Levels Intimacy 165 Learning to resolve the conflicts that arise from differing opinions is just one part of nurturing a dynamic relationship.

1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. iv. xxi. 94 A Knight that sawe the state Then present, and by likelihoodes presaged what might fall, Sayd (hearing it the diffring Kings and Soldiours almost all:) We euer warre, and neuer winne.

1674 W. Sherlock Disc. Knowl. Christ iv. 297 A Mediator is one, who interposeth between two differing parties, to accomodate the difference.

1749 Introd. Hist. Antient & Mod. 119 Disputes and Contentions..have sometimes run so high that the Differing Parties have come to Blows.

1797 Monthly Rev. Oct. 184 Differing parties should learn moderation, and think and write with wisdom and caution on the subject.

1812 D. Bogue & J. Bennett Hist. Dissenters IV. 239 The combatants enflamed the spirit of the party, and rendered the two bodies of methodists more hostile to each other than almost any other differing sects.

1885 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 21 Sept. A row occurred between differing factions of the St. Heldwig's (Polish) Church Society Sunday in which a number were cut with knives.

1969 Phi Delta Kappan Sept. 23/1 He was now caught in a withering cross-fire of not only students, faculty, and trustees, but between differing factions of these groups.

2012 E. Hay Covenanters in Canada xiv. 215 The matter could not be resolved to the satisfaction of the differing parties.