Middle English Dictionary Entry
flẹ̄ing ger.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | flẹ̄ing ger.(2) Also fleoinge, vleinge. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Act of fleeing, flight; awei ~, ~ awei; escape [quot.: c1350]; abandoning [quot. Chaucer Bo.]; (b) the shunning (of vice, of temptation), renunciation (of worldly power).
Associated quotations
a
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)2048 : Þi fleoinge schal beo luyte wurth; þou ne schalt nouȝt wel fer wende.
- c1350 MPPsalter (Add 17376)141.6 : Fleing [L fuga] perisce[d] fro me.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mat.24.20 : Preie ȝe that ȝoure fleynge be not maad in wyntir.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)2615 : In hir fleing [Trin-C: fliȝte] þar sco yode, An angel hir befor stode.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.3494 : In his fleyng he had go to wrak.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)2.pr.3.101 : Yif thow forleete hir in deyinge, or elles that sche, Fortune, forleete the in fleynge awey?
- c1430(a1410) Love Mirror (Brsn e.9)68 : The processe of the fleinge of Jesu with his moder and Joseph.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)165 : Fleynge a-wey: Fuga.
- a1450 Gener.(1) (Mrg M 876)4319 : Generides..Wist not..of the Soudanes awey fleyng.
- a1500(?a1450) GRom.(Hrl 7333)329 : Whan he was in fleyng, The lyon..come agayn hym.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)67a/a : Stintinge & fleynge of vices.
- a1400 Of vr vife (Hrl 7322)2 : Of þing þat vs egget, a vast vleynge.
- a1400 Wycl.MPl.(Add 24202)43 : That God tooc..to techyng of penaunse doynge, and to fleyinge of fedyng of oure wittis, and to mortifiyng of hem.
- ?c1450(?a1400) Wycl.Clergy HP (Lamb 551)377 : In þis fleynge of criste fro þis lordeschip..he dampned þe ressauyng of þe lordeschip.
2.
A refuge.
Associated quotations
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)17.1 : Lord my festynynge and my fleynge [L refugium] and my delyuerere.
- a1500(?a1450) GRom.(Add 9066)336 : So shall he have fleyng to the paleys of holy chirche.