c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xix. 28 In regeneracioun, or gendrynge aȝein..ȝe shulen sitt on twelue setis.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vi. xiv. 309 The fadir is heed and welle of bigetinge and gendringe.

c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xiv. l. 144 Reson ich seih sothliche suwen alle bestes In etynge, and drynkyng in gendrynge of kynde.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 34 We schulden be continent or mesurable in deedis of gendring.

1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 153/1 A Genderynge, genitura [?c1475 BL Add. 15562 coitus].

a1500 (?c1378) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 441 Crist preisiþ more preching of þe gospel þat gendriþ þis chirche þan gendring of his oune body.

1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 1115 When the time of gendering is, the male [viper] commeth to the female, and putteth his head into her mouth.

1625 J. Robinson Observ. xiii. 93 What is it for man or woman to prostitute themselvs to Sathan for the gendring of so misshapen a monster, as a ly is?

1632 E. Jorden Disc. Bath ii. 19 in Disc. Nat. Bathes (ed. 3) A Treatise of the Love, lust, and gendring of living Creatures.

1751 Eleanora 60 Have all the Endearments that have past between us, been but the gendering of Vipers?

1831 Eclectic Rev. June 487 These causes of division,..the encouraging of upstart preachers, and the gendering of a turbulent spirit in the hearers.

1897 Friend 1 May 324/1 I much fear that the partisan contests in the colleges often tend to the gendering of this hateful transformation.

1906 E. L. Noble Poems i. 40 Known by that mind which sees in the elements the gendering of thought.

1922 G. Ono Expenditures of Sino-Japanese War 157 An increase in extravagance together with the gendering of a spirit of enterprise were the results of these national movements.

1740 S. Lowe French Rudim. (new ed.) Pref. It may not be amiss..to diversify their work, by giving them exercises in gendering, forming, conjugating, and declining.

1901 Jrnl. Genetic Psychol. 8 460 The very fecundity of fancy seen in animism, the gendering of all nouns, in the personification of natural objects, the persistent mythic construction of the world, is the promise and potency of the highest literature, art, and religion.

1945 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 58 331 Society is gendered far beyond the gendering of the individual man or woman.

1988 Jrnl. Design Hist. 1 136/1 The gendering of designs is a case in point... Why the long-lasting preponderance of pastel shades in designs for women?

1998 Social Stud. Sci. 28 268 You may well have noted the gendering of pronouns as we have quoted different physicians.

2006 New Yorker 4 Sept. 70/1 For two years, he performed both physical tasks and emotional tasks that were ‘female’..and I think it helped remove some of the gendering from those things.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vii. lv. 411 Siphac is a skyn þat departiþ þe bowels fro þe gendringe membres.

?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. l. 7225 So waxand folk in alle þe werld, ne so genderand [a1450 Lamb. gendryng], ne so plentyue..as we ere..in no lond salle men fynde.

1585 J. Banister Wecker's Compend. Chyrurg. xxvi. 408 Woundes of the gendring parts are most perillous for paine.

1790 ‘An Experienced Farrier’ Taplin Improved 135 In the gendering time,..the bucks will run after the does.

1854 S. T. Dobell Balder xxiv. 169 The gendering caves and secrets where thy spring Is gestate.

1880 Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 1 311/2 It [sc. a frog supposed to be in a woman's stomach] al'us started croakin' every spring at generin' time.

1904 L. Binyon Europe in Death of Adam 50 While thou didst scatter fiery seeds, That in the gendering lap of earth Prepared a new world's Titan birth.