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?1565 A. Hartwell tr. W. Haddon Sight of Portugall Pearle sig. Av^v To disquiete with suche chaunge of tauntes..the most famous Isle in Christendome,..and not to determine eyther the cryme or persons, argueth in a man small aduisemente, & foule mispending of time in belyinge of other.

1567 J. Rastell Briefe Shew False Wares vii. f. 91 I reporte me also to your rayling vpon the Pope, whom ye knowe not: Your belying of honest men which yet liue.

1632 R. Sherwood Dict. sig. D/1, in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) A belying, calumnie.

1671 E. Howard Six Days Adventure ii. 24 Perhaps I may bestow a pair [of horns] on you in time—and then For your belying of me, and our Sexes Authority.

1875 A. C. Swinburne Ess. & Stud. Pref. p. x The right of backbiting and belying.

1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job clvi. 735/1 But is not this an expresse belying [Fr. dementir] of the holie Ghoste?

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xi. 171 If the denying that there is any God, bee a belying of a mans owne sences.

1667 R. Baxter Reasons Christian Relig. i. xv. 158 It [sc. sin] is a belying or contempt of the great and gracious Promises of God.

1603 J. Dod & R. Cleaver Treat. or Expos. Ten Commandements ii. f. 57 Stage playes, which serue for nothing but to nourish filthinesse,..where the man is cloathed with womans apparrell, and that as ordinarily is put in vse, which the Lord calleth abhomination; this is a way to breed confusion of sexes, and it is a plaine belying of the sexe.

1700 C. Leslie Def. Snake in Grass ii. ii. 106 Leaving out the Material part of a Man's Answer, and giving that for his Answer, is Belying of a Man.

1728 R. Breck Only Method to promote Happiness 20 Their belying of God when they seduced our first Parents.

1793 M. Nash Answer to Charitable Morsel of Unleavened Bread 34 Will Mr. Romaine silently pocket such fulsome adulation, and notorious falsehoods, to the dishonour of his Master, belying of the truth, and the grief of his brethren?

1909 Biblical World 33 402 The belying of facts and the distorting of images cannot be condoned in the writer of secular history.

1828 Manch. Guardian 26 Jan. Such treachery to his own high character, such a belying of the eminent services he has rendered to his country.

1875 C. H. Spurgeon Metrop. Tabernacle Pulpit XX. 156 Imagine that blind man, when Christ said, ‘Thy faith hath saved thee,’ saying, ‘I trust that in future years it will be found to be so.’ It would be a belying..of his own earnest character.

1905 Year Bk. Central Conf. Amer. Rabbis 13 159 For Reform Jews to seek to solve a vital religious problem by mere reference to the sentiments and tradition of centuries..to me seems..a belying of the very cardinal doctrines of Reform Judaism.

2013 Social Scientist 41 2 Kertesz's work, written after the collapse of the Communist regime in Hungary, deals with the belying of hopes raised by that collapse.