Middle English Dictionary Entry
prīving(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | prīving(e ger. |
| Etymology | Cp. prīven v. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Deprivation, loss; (b) act of preventing.
Associated quotations
a
- (?c1422) Hoccl.ASM (Dur-U Cosin V.3.9)35 : What may profyte the lore of dyynge, Syn deeth noon hauynge is, but a pryuynge?
- a1425(a1400) PConsc.(Glb E.9 & Hrl 4196)1813 : Þe dede es noght elles Bot a pryvyng of lyf.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)105a/b : About dislocacioun of þe fote..Signez..ar eminencez and concauite vnwont, akyng, & pryuyng [Ch.(2): fordoynge; L priuatio] of mouyng.
- ?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)30/31 : A wickid creature..makeþ hymsilf an able instrument to þe pryuynge of euerlastynge liif.
- ?c1430(c1400) Wycl.Satan & P.(Corp-C 296)267 : Þes worldly prelatis wolen make a congregacion of hem self & clerkis assentynge to hem..summe for drede of curs, priuynge of beneficis, & sclaundre.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)414 : Privynge: Privacio.
- a1500(?c1378) Wycl.OPastor.(Ryl Eng 86)457 : Þe moost harm þat þei don is priuyng or sleyng.
b
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)96a/a : It is signified þat it [fistula] is in þe bodie of þe musculez by pryuyng [Ch.(2): lettinge] worchyng of þam.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)181/30 : Moral vice or synne..stondiþ aȝens moral vertu priuativeli as bi priuing or forbering þe dede of vertu in it silf or bi priuyng þe dewe mater wherupon goiþ þe dede of vertu.