harryingn.
/ˈharɪɪŋ/ Warlike incursion; devastation, laying waste; ravaging, plundering, raiding.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > devastation or desolation
harryingc900
harrowingc1000
wastinga1300
destructionc1330
harryc1330
wastenessa1382
wastitya1382
desolation1382
unroningnessa1400
wrackc1407
exile1436
havoc1480
hership1487
vastation1545
vastitude1545
sackc1550
population1552
waste1560
ravishment1570
riotingc1580
pull-down1588
desolating1591
degast1592
devastation1603
ravage1611
wracking1611
ravagement1766
herriment1787
carnage1848
wastage1909
enhavocking-
society > armed hostility > attack > invasion > [noun] > overrunning or harrying
harryingc900
yerning1340
overrunning?a1425
distressing1599
scouringa1616
sweep1837
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > sacking, raiding, or looting > [noun]
harryingc900
harrowingc1000
skeckinga1387
pillagea1393
skickinga1400
forayingc1400
hership1487
direption1528
sackc1550
sacking1560
sackage1577
saccaging1585
picory1591
reprisalc1595
boot-haling1598
booty-haling1611
rapture?1611
ravage1611
prize-taking1633
plunder1643
booting1651
hen roost1762
ravagement1766
raiding1785
loot1839
looting1842
c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) i. ix. [xi.] 42 Seo hergung wæs þurh Alaricum Gotena cyning geworden.
c1000 Anglo-Saxon Chron. an. 994 (Earle) 132 (note) Hi..worhton þæt mæste yfel.. on bærnette and heregunge and on man slyhtum.
a1250 Prov. Ælfred 90 in Old Eng. Misc. 108 To werie þat lond wiþ hunger and wiþ herivnge.
c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 194 The hereing of Bothuile Mure.
1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Ess. 1st Ser. viii. 216 The coasts of Britain..desolated by their harryings.
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