Middle English Dictionary Entry
pinsing(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | pinsing(e ger. Also pincinge & pinsunge. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Penitential suffering; fleshes ~, ~ in (of) flesh, mortification; an act of mortification; (b) ~ of, tormenting or suffering inflicted by (sb.).
Associated quotations
a
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)188/17 : Ne schal ha..halden riht hire chastete wið uten..pinsunge [Pep: pynsyng; Tit: pinsinge; Nero: pinunge] i flesch wið feasten, wið wecchen, wið disceplines.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)188/7 : Þeo..schulden ane lechnin hare sawle wið heorte bireowsunge & flesches pinsunge.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)193/13 : Al þet ich habbe iseid of flesches pinsunge [Pep: pynsynges] nis nawt for ow.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)195/3 : Alle flesches pinsunges..is ase nawt aȝeines luue.
- a1400 Ancr.(Pep 2498)53/17 : So mote vche Man and womman be hard outewiþ wiþ pynsynges of flesche in biddynge and in wakynge.
- a1525 Conq.Irel.(Dub 592)88/6 : In the man of blode, the blode shall aryse, & wanhoply shal hys pynsynge be, tyl that scotland þe penaunce of hys pylgrymage bewepe.
b
- ?c1400 Rolle Psalter (Sid 89:Bramley)12.5 : Pincynge [UC 64: I..sett noght by thaire stirynge, na mare than a geaunte dos at puttynge of a waik man].