Middle English Dictionary Entry
deuinge ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | deuinge ger. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Precipitation of dew, or dew; (b) shedding of blood, or blood so shed.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)137a/a : Þerof comeþ a litil dewinge in þe whiche schyneþ þe beme þat is þere afore and so þe raynebowe is I schape.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)202a/a : In plato it is y seide þat margarites ben y gendred of dewe. þe more dewynge is y founde, þe more and þe gretter þe margarite is y gendred of þe dewe.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)914 : Þe sonne ariseþ and felleþ deveyng [LinI: þe dewyng].
b
- c1390 Talking LGod (Vrn)6/22 : Wiþ dewyng of þi deore blood.
- ?a1430 ?Hoccl.Poems PS Compl.Virg.(Hnt HM 111)158 : By taast of swich dewynge [i.e. the blood shed by Christ].
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1425 HBk.GDei (Hnt HM 148)75/23 : With slik luf stirryngs Gode to his lofers is calde, and he abides noght to þe prayere be made, bot he preses in þe myddes to þat thristy saule þat langwysch in lufe to soften hym with a dewyng of henuenly swetnes.
- a1425 HBk.GDei (Hnt HM 148)76/2 : Witerly ters & sighynge ere messangers of his [God's] come…Bot if it so be, hit semes noght þai suld be calde ters, bot heuenly dewynge, comande fro a-bofe to soft þat saule þat langes in lufe.
Note: New sense--per MJW
Note: Context: both quots. suggest weeping reflective of religious devotion.--per MLL