1539 T. Wyatt Let. Henry VIII in Eng. Stud. 58 405 Ther was lefft hym no way but other to come thorow fraunce or to se the revoltyng of flaunders.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccccxliij Fardinando alledgeth the reuoltinge of..diuers Townes from him.

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. x. sig. Pp.iij^v/1 Sundrie names, which do import & signifie..a fault, an errour, a reuolting.

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 144 For which his reuolting, Othoman presently gaue him an ensigne.

1648 Answer of Commons to Petition of Persons of London 2 Consider what new Wars, risings, revolting, invasions, and plottings have beene since this last cry for a Personall Treaty.

1710 J. Norris Treat. Christian Prudence v. 253 Revoltings from the common Principles of Christianity..call for a very publick and solemn Repentance.

a1784 T. Letchworth Twelve Disc. (1787) 18 If we make an impartial survey of our past lives, review our frequent revoltings.., there is scarcely a soul present but must feel some degree of remorse.

1827 G. Fox Hist. Pontefract i. ii. 88 On learning..the revolting of his subjects, he raised a large army.

1898 Daily News 25 June 6/3 The peasant's revolting against the noble is easily explained.

1912 R. Cullum Twins of Suffering Creek xxviii. 297 She was looking at him with eyes wide open to what he really was, and all the revolting of her nature was uppermost.

2006 A. Neill As I Am 179 The revolting of the mind has purpose.

1566 J. Studley tr. Seneca Medea f. 43 ^v O falce reuoltyng mynd Why doest thou..suche chaunge of fancyes fynde [L. quid, anime, titubas]?

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. iii. 162 Our sighs..shall lodge the summer corne, And make a dearth in this reuolting land. View more context for this quotation

1611 Bible (King James) Jer. v. 23 But this people hath a reuolting and a rebellious heart. View more context for this quotation

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. i. 183 Let the Church our mother breathe her curse..on her reuolting sonne. View more context for this quotation

1644 T. Palmer Saints Support 16 The Apostle here, writing to the revolting Galathians, takes them up sharply for leauing the faith.

a1720 L. Milbourne Legacy Church of Eng. (1722) iv. 287 The Kingdom of Israel, as it was call'd from the greater Number of the revolting Tribes.

a1798 T. Pennant Tour on Continent (1948) 92 Galba was obliged to quit his post, after defeating the revolting mountaineers.

1842 H. E. Manning Serm. xiii. 182 We..shall best spread His kingdom in an evil and revolting world.

1872 W. Hanna Resurrection 79 This last revolting province in the domains of the Most High.

1909 M. I. J. Griffin Catholics & Amer. Revol. II. 341 Two British Spies sent to seduce the men to British allegiance had been hung by the revolting soldiers.

1968 E. Cleaver Soul on Ice ii. ii. 90 [He] got himself shot trying to ‘cool off’ revolting Negroes in Watts.

2006 Daily Tel. 4 Jan. 17/2 An independent Ukraine will always annoy..romantic Russophiles enraged by revolting peasants.

1773 J. Lind Lett. conc. Present State Poland iv. 55 This is the more revolting, as this same king of Prussia tells us [etc.].

1778 W. Kenrick Lady of Manor Pref. The revolting absurdity of supposing the custom..still to subsist.

1800 Anti-Jacobin Rev.& Mag. 5 58 What intolerable weism! more revolting than the worst species of egotism!

1849 S. R. Maitland Ess. 67 There is, to us, something so revolting in the very idea.

1863 H. W. Longfellow Sicilian's Tale vii, in Tales Wayside Inn 61 In the corner, a revolting shape, Shivering and chattering sat the wretched ape.

1947 L. G. Green Tavern of Seas 36 The appearance of the fish is so revolting that I cannot imagine anyone even considering eating one.

1977 Cornish Times 19 Aug. 15/1 Children cannot play games on fields intended for their use without falling on some pooch's revolting mess.

1996 Sainsbury's Mag. Jan. 170/3 She finally presented us with a revolting plate of meat and onions swimming in butter.

1820 New Monthly Mag. Aug. 204/1 Thus the incidents, many of which, stand on the verge of the revolting, were left without support or softening.

1835 Court Jrnl. 14 Nov. 731/3 His pictures are all coarsely, but powerfully painted... The revolting is the principal ingredient of them.

1888 R. L. Stevenson Pulvis et Umbra i This mountain mass of the revolting and the inconceivable.

1913 C. M. Gayley Representative Eng. Comedies II. li The combination of the revolting and sensational with the humorous and purely farcical.

1967 M. L. Rosenthal New Poets iii. ii. 105 He has cultivated a positive addiction to the revolting.

1999 M. T. Taussig Defacement i. 28 The revolting is not so revolting, and could even be funny and enjoyable.

1713 T. H. Form of Holy Scriptural Divinity 81 Voluntary unknown Errors, either disloyally, revoltingly, voluntary, or else unwittingly, choakingly..voluntary unknown Errors, flowing from Original Death.

1779 Remarks on Rescript Court Madrid 32 How then could the King..encourage judgments or confiscations revoltingly unjust?

1802 Orthodox Churchman's Mag. June 383 He..indecorously and revoltingly seems to include the supreme lord himself.

1876 G. Meredith Beauchamp's Career II. xiii. 238 A confused recollection..surged up in her mind revoltingly.

1926 S. Jameson Three Kingdoms i. 49 I'm sure that's a revolting sentiment, and revoltingly sentimental, but there you are.

1956 S. J. Perelman Let. 25 Aug. in Don't tread on Me (1987) 186 A mass beach picnic full of revoltingly smug people.

2008 OC (Orange County, Calif.) Weekly (Nexis) 23 Oct. McCain's running a revoltingly sleazy campaign.