Middle English Dictionary Entry
blāming(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | blāming(e ger. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
The act of criticizing, disparaging, reprimanding, or censuring.
Associated quotations
- c1350 MPPsalter (Add 17376)30.16 : Ich herd blamyng [L vituperationem] of many.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Prov.1.25 : My blamyngis [vr. blamynge; L increpationes] ȝee roȝten not of.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.1455 : In blaminge of the Grekes feith.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)279a/b : Þe hounde is nought to blamynge [L vituperabilis] þat wakeþ..by day and slepeþ..and berkeþ nouȝt by night.
- ?a1425(a1415) Wycl.Lantern (Hrl 2324)25/35 : Þus wandriþ holi chirche in erþe..in blamyngis, in reprouyngis, in sclaundris.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Prov.6.23 : The blamyng of techyng [L increpatio disciplinae] is the weie of lijf that the comaundementis kepe thee fro an yuel womman.
- c1450 Spec.Chr.(2) (Hrl 6580)236/33 : He is not proude of praysynge ne he is broken by blamynge [L uituperacione].
- (c1454) Pecock Fol.(Roy 17.D.9)102/29 : Sum prechyng..serueþ into blamyng of men for her vicis.
- a1500 Imit.Chr.(Dub 678)46/26 : He haþ gret tranquillite of herte, þat settiþ neuer by praisynges ner blamynges.