renowningn.

1591 E. Spenser Complaints Ep. Ded. sig. A3^v I haue conceiued this small Poeme, intituled by a generall name of the worlds Ruines: yet speciallie intended to the renowming of that noble race, from which both you and he sprong.

1631 T. May tr. J. Barclay Mirrour of Mindes i. 216 To the renowning of their supposed suffrings.

1671 in W. Penn Papers (1981) I. 194 What..Heavenly resolution attended them in their afflictions, to the confounding of their Adversaries, & renowning of both their Patience & their Principles amongst their Neighbours.

1824 J. Russell Tour Germany I. 172 The ambitious contest of German Burschen is simply, who shall be most successful at renowning, that is, at doing something..which will make people stare at them, and talk about them; or, who shall produce the greatest number of scandals, that is, who shall fight the greatest number of duels, or cause them to be fought.

1826 Blackwood's Mag. 19 550 Among many less justifiable pieces of ‘renowning’ which occurred during my stay, there was one prank [etc.].

1851 New Monthly Mag. 91 398 The well-tempered blade of the ‘Schläger’, renowned in the ‘renownings’ of Germany's bellicose students.

1906 G. Hazzard Hazzard's Hist. Henry County, Indiana (Milit. ed.) II. 764 They differed from the German ‘renownings’ in this, that they were not challenges to deadly combats with the short sword, but to the more indecorous..‘fist and skill fights’.

1988 V. G. Kiernan Duel in European Hist. 272 College fraternities devoted much of their time to what they called ‘renowning’ (renommieren)—swaggering, bragging, brawling, anything to give themselves airs and out-strut their rivals.