allyingn.

1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie liii. 317 When God offereth vs his word, it is alreadie an allying of himself to vs, & a giuing of vs a record of our saluation.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Parentado, a mariage, or matching, or allying together of houses.

1679 J. Davies tr. Appian Hist. i. iv. 171 He..omitted nothing that might be attempted against the Romans, even to the allying himself with the Maeotiques and Gauls.

1736 Gentleman's Mag. May 245/2 There is not any Circumstance more worthy the Care and Attendance of a Great and Wise King, than the allying his Children to such Families as are most likely to have the Prosperity of his People at Heart.

1841 Lancet 6 Feb. 709/2 But the principle of union is, in both cases, identical; namely, the allying of a substance that purges with another that acts as a cordial.

1868 T. J. Radford tr. A. E. Brachvogel Beaumarchais ii. ix. 106/2 He brought with him the so-called Austrian policy, that is, the allying of the houses of Hapsburg and Bourbon.

1927 M. W. Graham New Govt. Eastern Europe i. xiii. 424 The manifesto..cut across the program which their more ambitious politicians had hoped to realize—the allying of the destinies of the kingdom to those of Galicia.

1972 R. May Power & Innocence ii. v. 105 The last form of power to be cited in the next section, integrative power, is an example of the allying of power with the consciousness.

2005 J. Přibáň in A. Czarnota et al. Rethinking Rule of Law after Communism iii. 312 It is the allying of this organic and socially conservative entity [sc. ethnicity] with the modern state..which establishes the fascist totalitarian regime.