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单词 highting
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hightingn.1

Forms: see hight v.3 and -ing suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: hight v.3, -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < hight v.3 + -ing suffix1. Compare also hightle v.
Obsolete.
Adornment; embellishment.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > [noun]
hightinga1387
bellishingc1440
beautifying1532
beautification1600
purfling1613
embellishment1623
embellishing1641
lovelifying1916
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [noun]
tiffing?c1225
hightinga1387
prickinga1425
perching?1578
pranking1580
primpingc1590
sprunkinga1685
prinking1687
smugging1736
titivation1805
beautifying1836
prink1869
dolling1906
makeover1966
the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [noun] > promising
behotingc1300
beheting1303
warranting1303
hightinga1387
hightingc1390
pollicitationc1455
plighting1555
conjuring1589
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 313 By cause of þe more hiȝtynge and fairenesse [L. causa ornatus dignioris].
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. x. iii. 557 Þey [sc. elementis] beþ nat bare ne voyde of hiȝtynge noþir ournament [L. ab ornatu].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

hightingn.2

Brit. /ˈhʌɪtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈhaɪtɪŋ/, Scottish English /ˈhʌitɪŋ/
Forms:

α. Middle English heetyng, Middle English hehtynge, Middle English heteyng, Middle English heting, Middle English hettyng, Middle English hetyng, Middle English hetynge, Middle English hightynge, Middle English hihtyng; Scottish pre-1700 hyghting, pre-1700 hyghtyng, pre-1700 1800s hechting /ˈhɛxtɪŋ/, 1800s heghtin'.

β. Middle English hoting, Middle English hotinge, Middle English hotynge.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: hight v.1, -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < hight v.1 + -ing suffix1. Compare earlier hight n.3 and hote n.
Scottish in later use. Now rare.
The action of promising or pledging. Also: a promise, a vow.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [noun] > promising
behotingc1300
beheting1303
warranting1303
hightinga1387
hightingc1390
pollicitationc1455
plighting1555
conjuring1589
c1390 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1877) 57 244 Þis kniht..þouhte folfulle his hihtyng þat he hihte to þe fende.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 785 (MED) Þis heting..was bath fals and fikil.
c1400 Comm. on Canticles (Bodl. 288) in T. Arnold Sel. Eng. Wks. J. Wyclif (1871) III. 33 (MED) God is trewe in his heetynge.
?a1425 (?a1350) T. Castleford Chron. (1940) l. 24613 Fair er þe wordes and þe hetinges Þat þou to vs now schewes and bringes.
a1475 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) II. 18 This knyȝt..thouȝt to fulfyl his hettynge.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xxiv. §11. 90 Thai ere witnes of his hightynge.
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) ii. 178 Thay tuke thair wapinnis, and went fordwart, full of ire and hope of victorie, desiring now the Hethruschis to mak thair hechting.
c1580 ( tr. Bk. Alexander (1927) III. ii. 5328 With avowing I may nocht dele, na with hechting.
c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 300 He promittit in hechting to caus the toun men doe or die.
1819 J. Rennie St. Patrick III. 197 Gin ye like tae haud me at ma heghtin'.
?c1835 Hist. Sketches Upper Ward Renfrewshire 39 He was eggit up tilt by the deil's hechting to him that he soud na want ony pleisour.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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