eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xvi. 99 Ðeah ðe he [sc. Paulus] wære gelæded on neorxna wong..ond suaðeah for ðære sceawungge ðara ungesewenlicra ðinga ðeah ðe he up aðened wære on his modes scearpnesse.

lOE tr. Alcuin De Virtutibus et Vitiis (Vesp.) in R. D.-N. Warner Early Eng. Homilies (1917) 99 An is þæt gemynd his þære þurhtogena synnen, oðer is seo sceawung his ælðeodignysse on þyssen earmen life.

a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 103 (MED) To-foren ðare burh of Ierusalem is an muchel dune ðe hatte Syon, þat is tokned 'Sceawinge'.

a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 105 (MED) General tokenes [sc. symptoms of cramp] ben þese: to greet akþe, crokidnes of iȝen & crokidnes of schewynge.

OE Blickling Homilies 187 Neron..bead þæt eall þæt folc come to þisse sceawunga.

OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iii. xi. 194 Þa þa se ylca treowleasa cyningc gesæt in ðære sceawunge, to ðon þæt he wolde geseon þæs biscopes deað.

OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Mark xii. 40 Qui deuorant domos uiduarum sub obtentu prolixae orationis : ða ðe offreattas huso widwuana under sceawung longunga uel longes gebeddes.

c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 157 (MED) Þat was ine þe holy rode, Þorȝ þe schewynge of þe blode Of godes sone.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 95 Schewynge, settynge forþ of marchaundise.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. ii. ii. 62 An aungel is þe ymage of God and schewinge [L. manifestatio] of hid liȝt, merour pure and ful briȝt.

a1400 (c1300) Northern Homily: Serm. on Gospels (Coll. Phys.) in Middle Eng. Dict. at Tokning(e Of this openlic schauing Hauis godd schawed many taing [read takning].

a1450 Mandeville's Trav. (Bodl. e Mus.) 9 (MED) Manye of the thornys lyn brokyn in the uessel of cristal for ouermeche dreynesse and for oftyn shewynge [L. ostensionem] to pilgrymis.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Hiiii By the ostencion or shewyng of grace.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 225 There were great embracynges and shewynges of frendship on both sydes.

1602 W. Whately Down-fall of Pride 18 One saith out of Gregory: Probatio dilectionis est exhibitio operis. The triall of thy loue, is the shewing of thy deed, or to shew it by thy deeds.

1664 Bp. J. Taylor Disswasive from Popery ii. x. 139 Then follow more prayers, and more adjurations, and more conjurations..and aspersions of holy water, and shewings of the Cross, and signings with it.

1709 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 176 Mr. Lhuyd..made what he could by Shewing.

1765 Treat. Domest. Pigeons 11 When you observe the hen to sweep her tail to the cock..which is termed shewing.

1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 314/1 The beauty of the drama was made to depend on arrangement, fine composition, and the shewing of situations.

1891 Forest & Stream 1 Jan. 483/1 Averse as we are to the showing of puppies as a rule in the ordinary dog shows, a goodly show of young saplings would be very pleasing to the dog men.

1925 E. F. Norton in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 107 Some stones had fallen..and..had cut Lobsang Tashi's head—a slight affair despite a good showing of blood.

1999 N.Y. Times Mag. 3 Oct. 26/2 If the display of nipples no longer titillated, designers asked one another, could the showing of bottoms be far behind?

2007 E. Kuhnke Body Lang. for Dummies iv. 65 We both held our mouths tightly with no showing of teeth.

c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 7626 Of whom y made bifore scheweing.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 22298 Þar sal he..sceuing make of his maistris.

c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 74 (MED) Of this monstre whiche ye haue maad me a shewinge of wolde j fayn wite the name.

a1525 ( Coventry Leet Bk. (1908) II. 422 To make a clere shewing of the same before certen oure..Counsellours.

1824 Augusta (Georgia) Chron. 28 July Unless they make shewing, satisfactory, of the cause thereof, at the next term of this Court, executions will be issued against them.

1888 1st Biennial Rep. Bureau Labor Stat. Colorado 454 The tables make showing of one remarkable feature, in the fact that, of the whole number of these prisoners, only three performed any work.

1917 Pract. Druggist Feb. 66/1 You are ready..to make showing of candy cherries in jars, baskets, dishes and other available receptacles.

1976 Tyrone (Pa.) Daily Herald 16 Oct. 3/5 [He] argued the plaintiffs made no showing of irreparable injury as required in their preliminary injunction bid.

2006 Herald Bull. (Anderson, Indiana) 1 July a7/3 You have to actually make a showing of hardship or extreme inconvenience, it's not something that's just going to be handed out.

1845 J. J. Hooper Some Adventures Capt. Simon Suggs xi. 135 The Captain whispered to his lawyer, and urged him to put him on the stand, and make a showing for a continuance.

1851 Rep. Supreme Court Georgia 9 374 On the showing for a continuance, it appeared that the witness had been recognized at the last term of the Court to appear and testify in the cause for the defendant.

1902 Abbott's Brief for Trial Criminal Cases (ed. 2) xxiv. 187 A complete showing for a postponement for the absence of a witness should not be disregarded..merely because it appears by a counter showing that the witness had [etc.].

1940 Idaho Evening Times (Twin Falls, Idaho) 17 Dec. 10/6 Defense was to present a showing for continuance this afternoon in trial of a district court civil suit in which [etc.].

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 196 Ase lease swefnes false schawunges.

c1275 Kentish Serm. in J. Hall Select. Early Middle Eng. (1920) I. 215 (MED) Þis is si glorius miracle and si glorius seywinge of ure lordes beringe þet us telþ þet holi godespel of te day.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 14 (MED) Of þe sseawynge þet seint Ion þe godspellere yzeȝ.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10707 Þat he [sc. God] þam suld sli sceuing scau, þat þai moght wit sum taknyng knau Quat þai suld do.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 21039 Þe bok o scheuing þer he wrat.

c1450 (c1400) Julian of Norwich Revelations Divine Love: Shorter Version (1978) 48 (MED) In alle this blyssede schewynge of oure lorde I behelde it as ane in god syght, and I vndyrstode neuer nathynge þereyn that stonez me.

?c1500 Mary Magdalene (Digby) l. 1621 A mervelows shewyng, In my slep I had.

1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) i. 16 The..spiryte gaue hym to endite the songe with meruaylous tokens & shewynges.

1586 W. Fulke Confut. Treat. W. Allen ii. iv. 396 in Treat. against Def. of Censure Bks. W. Charke & M. Hanmer But for as much as we see, that the daie of another trouble beginneth to approch, and are admonished by often and dailie shewings or visions, that we should be armed and prepared vnto the battell.

1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede III. vi. l. 224 It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us... But now, I believe, I have a clear showing that my work lies elsewhere.

1925 D. Harford (title) The shewings of Lady Julian, recluse at Norwich.

1978 F. Beer Julian of Norwich's Revelations 28 These four shewings seem without question to fall into the first of Julian's ‘thre partyes’.

2005 Harvard Theol. Rev. 98 238 Many of her showings are..presented as giving Hadewijch [of Antwerp] a direct intellectual grasp of divine truths about the Trinity and other celestial matters.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 335 (MED) Þerfore in olde bookes þat day is i-cleped þe day of schewynges [a1425 Harl. adds in the plural nombre, for that day fyll many diverse schewynges], and hadde dyvers names; for in þe same day but in dyvers ȝeres were i-doo þre grete schewynges..Epiphania..Theophonia..Bethania.

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Hunterian) f. 39^v (MED) Alle þe sinewes haue here begynnyng oþer schewinge of þe braines bi him selfe oþer of þe nucha.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 5427 (MED) Appollo..firste þere dide appere..Of whiche shewyng þis Ile bereþ þe name..For Delos is in Greke no more to seyne Þan a schewyng or an apparence.

a1500 (?a1400) Stanzaic Life of Christ (Harl. 3909) (1926) l. 7637 Ihesu these tymes fyue Schewet hym..that he rose from deth... But these fyue showynges her Representes a prest i-wys that in his masse..Fyue sythe hym turnes..to the pepul.., but at the thridde tyme noght says [he]..and that betokenes trwly the thridde shoyng Petre [to], that was done al priueli.

1574 H. Bullinger Hope of Faithfull iii. 14 Hereunto extende the manifold appearings or open shewings of Christ, mencioned by the Euangelists.

1493 Chastysing Goddes Chyldern (de Worde) xix. sig. Dv^v/1 Whether there be in hym ony sheweng of vaynglory.

1830 Macon (Georgia) Tel. 6 Feb. 23/1 Hitherto the Militia of our county has made by a poor showing.

1846 G. R. Gibson Jrnl. 23 Aug. (1935) 216 As we could not speak Spanish nor they English, we made rather a poor showing in conversation.

1853 Sandusky (Ohio) Daily Comm. Reg. 22 July The total receipts [were] $58,140—the nett profit of the operation being $8,740. A good showing, truly, but not so good as the following.

1890 Manch. Weekly Times 1 Aug. 4/7 The Greenacres profit of £904 is, comparatively speaking, a very poor showing.

1915 H. A. Gibbons Paris Reborn xxiv. 230 I remember last year what a wonderful showing you made at Longchamps on the Quatorze.

1958 Visct. Montgomery Mem. (1961) 495 He made a very poor showing in Parliament during the debate.

1986 Observer 30 Aug. 4/8 The two Davids believe they are on course to make a decisive improvement on their last election showing.

2011 FourFourTwo Oct. 91/3 He was approached by a gang who began to taunt him for the Leopards' poor showing in West Germany.

1877 G. B. Strauch Rep. in Royal Land Company Virginia 70 Some 200 or 300 feet farther up the western slope of Narrow-Back mountain, from the foregoing opening, shaftings have been made upon a vein which make a showing of a large outcrop.

1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 28 July 7/2 The work now in progress at the property consists in the stripping downwards of the showings in these workings, which will afford..an idea of the character of the ore showings over a depth of 900 feet.

1977 J. B. Hilton Dead-nettle ii. 20 ‘I'll drive deep. Happen there's another seam.’ ‘Then your first job is to collect your showing.’

1847 School Jrnl. (Windsor, Vermont) Nov. 107/1 The showing of butter, cheese, maple sugar and we may say of every variety of farm produce..was much larger and better than last year.

1863 Daily Commerc. Reg. (Sandusky, Ohio) 13 Oct. We had the pleasure..of seeing the most splendid showing of pears, we ever saw, embracing no less than thirty varieties.

1872 Democratic Union (Elkhart, Indiana) 29 Nov. Jarrett and Shackman both have lots of wearing apparel to sell, and the stores of Fisher and also Peck's have good showings of winter goods.

1943 Billboard 18 Dec. 56/3 There was an excellent showing of livestock.

1983 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 7 Dec. d5/4 (advt.) Local representatives of home distributors have booked booths at Tan–Del's for a large showing of their products.

1991 Cumberland (Maryland) Sunday Times-News 13 Jan. 2 c/5 There should be an excellent showing of wedding merchandise.

1885 Art Interchange 17 Dec. 169/3 Altogether, this first showing of the Water Color Society is an artistic success.

1942 ‘W. Irish’ Phantom Lady xv. 203 He'd walked in right in the middle of a showing... His granddaughter no doubt must have brought him in with her to help her select a wardrobe.

1967 ‘T. Wells’ Dead by Light of Moon (1968) i. 8 Wouldn't you know something like this would happen at my first important showing? All the big art critics here, and somebody has to jinx the lights!

1969 ‘H. Pentecost’ Girl Watcher's Funeral (1970) iii. i. 136 It's about my showing on Friday... The fashion writers and the trade journals haven't given me much of a play.

2002 Tampa Bay Mag. Dec. 95/1 Holiday Open House with special showings of holiday fashions with professional models, cookies and cocktails from 6-8 pm.

2012 B. Nuss Secrets to Composition 8/2 I..had the privilege of a private showing of thirty-five watercolors by Winslow Homer.

1908 Daily Gaz. & Bull. (Williamsport, Pa.) 31 Oct. The films..will be sent to St. Louis next week, where the picture company will reap $1,000 for fourteen showings at the American theater.

1915 Out West Nov. 106/1 The board in that city..prohibited the showing of the film reproduction of ‘Damaged Goods’.

1965 Kokomo (Indiana) Morning Times 5 Feb. 11/8 Westinghouse Broadcasting officials said TV showings of the program will begin about mid-April.

1972 ‘E. Ferrars’ Breath of Suspicion iii. 45 They had arrived just as the earlier showing of the film was ending.

2008 Men's Health Jan. 132/2 Relive your previous life as a Star Wars nerd. Rise early and go to the first showing.

?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) iv. pr. i. l. 3085 Þe þinges þat þou hast seid [me] hider to ben to me so clere and so shewyng [L. patuerunt]..þat þei ne mowe nat ben ouercomen.

1579 J. Stubbs Discouerie Gaping Gulf sig. A2 Deceiued by theyr lusts to embrace a shewing & false Good.

1598 R. Markham Let. in Nugæ Antiquæ (1775) II. 242 When a man hath so manie shewing friendes, and so manye unshewing enemies, who learneth his end here below?

1632 R. Horne Hist. Woman Great Faith 16 Let vs not flatter our selues with a shewing promise of long dayes in the Gospel, if wee walke not more worthie of it.