buffetingn.
1. The action of buffet v.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > spiritual attack
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c1240 Lofsong in Cott. Hom. 207 Ich bide þe..bi his spotlunge, and bufetunge.
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxi. 5 In spittynge, buffetynge & pungynge with þe thornes.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1885/2 Sharpe temptations and strong buffetynges of Satan.
1788 R. Burns Let. 3 Mar. (2001) I. 250 I have been..under much buffetting of the wicked one.
1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. viii. 197 He hath played the man from the beginning of these unhappy buffetings.
1873 W. Black Princess of Thule v. 80 The buffetings of wind and rain.
2. Aeronautics. Irregular oscillation, caused by air eddies, of any part of an aircraft.
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society > travel > air or space travel > specific movements or positions of aircraft > [noun] > oscillation
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1931 Frazer & Duncan in Aeronaut. Res. Committee Rep. & Mem. No. 1360 Jan. 84 The term ‘buffeting’ is here used to denote an irregular, and more or less severe, oscillatory movement of the organs of the tail unit.
1961 C. B. Smith Testing Time x. 168 The ‘buffeting’ was related to a basic aerodynamic problem, the turbulence which was bound to occur when an aircraft not suitably streamlined attained to a speed approaching the speed of sound.
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