disarrayingn.
/ˌdɪsəˈreɪɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌdɪsəˈreɪɪŋ/ The action of disarray v. (in various senses); an instance of this.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > [noun] > action of disarranging
disordering1523
disarraying1611
disordination1626
disranking1629
disarrangement1733
derangement1780
disarranging1821
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Desarrengement, an vnranking, disordering, disarraying.
a1670 J. Hacket Cent. Serm. (1675) 772 One..called it [sc. death] the disarraying of a man from the foundation corporal.
1832 W. O. Pughe Dict. Welsh Lang. (ed. 2) I. 400/1 Dattrwsiad, a disrobing, or a disarraying.
1862 B. F. Butler Let. 28 May in Private & Official Corr. (1917) I. 523 My drafts would have been..sent to my private bankers to the disarraying of my business.
1901 Sat. Rev. 1 Dec. 718/1 Kitty ‘disarraying’ herself somehow does remind one a little of Hardy. But in Hardy she would probably have taken much longer in the disarraying.
1992 Contemp. Lit. 33 488 In Hauser's fiction, J's disarraying of the pieces of the puzzle..unsettles the regular operation of syntax.
2010 A. Julius Trials of Diaspora iv. 167 In the disarraying of the world and its setting to right again, the tale affirms Christianity's sovereignty.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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