Middle English Dictionary Entry
wǒning(e ger.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | wǒning(e ger.(1) Also woniingue, woniȝng, woniȝing(e, wunning(e, voning(e, (early) wone(ȝ)ingue, wunung(e, wununga, wuniunge, (in surnames) woningge, wominge & (errors) wonig(ge, wonnige, wormynge, wuniugge; pl. wonninges, (early) wununge(n. |
| Etymology | From wǒnen v.(1) & OE wunung. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The act or action of living, dwelling [occas. difficult to distinguish from (b)]; ancre ~, the way of life of an anchorite; comeling ~, sojourning;
(b) a home, habitation; a place of residence, dwelling place; also fig.;
(c) a land, territory, country;
(d) ~ place (stede), a dwelling place; also fig.; winter ~, a site used in winter.
Associated quotations
a
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)101/10 : Wildernesse is anlich lif, of ancre wununge.
- a1300 Hit bilimpeð (Corp-O 59)34 : Bring us ut of wo & kare & of feondes fondinge; wicke is here ure fare & ure wuniȝinge.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Wisd.19.10 : Myndeful þei weren ȝit of þoo thingis þat weren don in þe comeling wonyng [WB(2):dwellyng] of þem.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)2884 : Neuere siþþen þe destroieyng Nas in Tebes wonyȝing, Bot as it were a wete lake Js now Tebes þat man of spake.
- a1425(a1400) PConsc.(Glb E.9 & Hrl 4196)6827 : He says, ‘Loverd þat I noght turne away Til þe myrke land,’ whare sorow es ay, Whare wonyng es ay hydus and ille.
- a1425(?a1400) Epistle DStirrings (Hrl 674)62/5 : Þou askist me counsel of silence and of speking, of comoun dietyng…& of only wonyng by þiself.
b
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)36/33 : Þu Nabucodonosor, þin rice gewit fram þe, & þu byst fram mannen aworpen, & þin wunung byð mid wildeoran.
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.VA (Vsp D.14)17/3 : Se is gehaten ‘Fornicatio’, & he befylð þone mann, & macað of Cristes lymen myltestrena lymen, & of Godes temple, gramena wununga.
- a1150(?OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)77/6 : On mines Fæder huse byð feala wunungen.
- a1150(?OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)90/28 : On þan nigeðen dæige tofealleð castles & steples & hus & circen…for þan þe þa synfulle hæfden þæron heora wununge.
- c1175(OE) Bod.Hom.Evang.(Bod 343)12/11 : We habben moten þa heofenlice wununge.
- a1225(OE) Lamb.Hom.VA (Lamb 487)103 : He buleð þene mon and maceð…of godes husa gromena wuniunge.
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)73/18 : Ac ðo ðe bersteð wið-inne here wunienge for here modinesse…hie bieð ut-iworpen ðurh dieules lare.
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)87/13 : Hwi wilt ðu ðurhwuniȝen on ðine sennes anon to ðine deaðe? Hwi ne mai ich none wuniȝenge habben mid ðe?
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)178/17 : Nabbe we na wununge [Cai: wuniugge] her, ah we secheð oþer.
- c1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)614 : Ȝif me lust…to wernen oþer wnienge, Ich habbe at wude tron wel grete.
- c1300 Lay.Brut (Otho C.13)659 : Þo comen hi to þan wonigge [?read: woningge] þat Hercules makede.
- c1300 SLeg.Chris.(Hrl 2277)61/75 : Þu most in lisnisse of þi synne þer habbe þi woninge [Ld: woneȝingue] & whan enie man haþ to þe neod, þu most him ouer bringe.
- c1300 SLeg.Lucy (LdMisc 108)48 : For þi clene Maiden-hod…Þi woneingue is wel ȝare i-maket with us in heuen-blis.
- c1300 SLeg.Magd.(2) (LdMisc 108)553 : He maude him a wonijngue in þat wildernesse þare Marie, þe swete Maudeleine, wonede in clennesse.
- c1330(?c1300) Spec.Guy (Auch)313 : Euerich shal haue his woniȝng Riht after his owen deseruing.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)149/21 : Þe erþe is woniynge of bestes and of men.
- c1350 MPPsalter (Add 17376)45.5 : God ne shal nouȝt be stired in-middes þys wonyng.
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.606 : The reue was a sclendre, colerik man…His wonyng was ful faire vpon an heeth.
- a1400 Of thes frer mynours (Cleo B.2)39 : For gode mete to þair mouþe þe toun is þurgh soght; Wyde are þair wonnynges & wonderfully wroght.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)6192 : Þe kyng…seiȝ þe jkeres woniynge And þe fisshes lotyinge.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)34b(1)/a : Incolatus: wormynge [Pep: wonynge].
- a1450 Mandev.(3) (BodeMus 116)27/4 : At the cete of Babilonye is the principal wonyng of the Soudon in a fayr castel.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)77.66 : His wonnynge is amange men that has clene thoghtis.
- a1475 Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)2720 : If þer be of blood noþing, Þanne haþ the soule no woning.
c
- 1372 Als i lay vp-on (Adv 18.7.21)39 : Þu salt beren a king In king dauit-is see, In al Iacobs woniing Þer king suld he be.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)155/116 : Herowde is kynge of þis wonynge, On to his dwellynge now xul ȝe glyde.
d
- c1330 SMChron.(Auch)871 : Caues he made mani on At glastingebirie vnder þe ston, Wonnige [read: Wonninge] stede gode & sounde, Wel depe in þe hard grounde.
- c1350 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Hrl 874)p.147 : Fallen is Babiloyne þe grete & it is made þe wonyng stede of deuels.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.147 : Pictes beeþ Agatirsis, þat hadde som wonynge places aboute þe wateres of Scythia, and þei beeþ i-cleped Pictes by cause of peyntynge of woundes.
- c1390 NHom.Narrat.(Vrn)41.307/60 : Tarcilla douhtur, Come wiþ me, þi longe woniinge place to se…In heuene.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.76 : So grete vengeance he nam…Þat…Fro Ȝork vnto Durhem no wonyng stede was.
- c1400 PLove (Hrl 2254)159/10 : I drede of þe lest þou…fall doun with hym [Lucifer] to his wonynge stede.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)6119 : I wole and charge thee To telle anoon thy wonyng places.
- ?a1425(?a1350) Castleford Chron.(Göt Hist 740)26992 : In companies þe hile þai fledde Ouer cee to sek þam wonigstedde [read: woningstedde].
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.331 : Fourme hit so that faire hit stonde yfere The wintir wonyng on the sonny side Ther Phebus with his bemys may hit chere.
- a1450(a1349) Rolle Com.LG (Cmb Dd.5.64)78/155 : Jhesu Criste oftsythes purges many synfull mans sawle and makes it abyl…to be his wonnyng-sted in halynes.
- ?c1450 St.Cuth.(Eg 3309)932 : In louthyane þai send him þan With childre of his euen elde his wonyng place þar he welde.
- a1475 Bk.Courtesy (Sln 1986)847 : Of alle oure synnes cryst be oure leche, And bryng vs to his vonyng place!
- c1475 Awntyrs Arth.(Tay 9)p.7 : In wunnyng place is woe for to duelle; Thay hurlun me vn-hindely; thay haue me on heȝte.
- a1475 Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)9359 : The þridde way is purgatorye…Wonynge stedes ben þer no moo Þat man or womman shal to goo.
2.
Existence; also, life [2nd quot., which could also be construed as sense 1.(a)].
Associated quotations
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)80/28 : Hu þe heofenlice God hine sylfen wrohte ȝif he himsylf ær nes, oðer hwa wurcæð æniȝ þing buton he ær wære & wununge hæfde þet he wyrcen mihte.
- a1425 PPl.A(1) (UC 45)8.111 : By foules he vs techith þat we schulde besy ben For to make wombe ioye in þis wonynge here [Vrn: while we woneþ in þis world].
3.
Custom, usage; habituation; also, way of life, practice [1st quot.].
Associated quotations
- a1350 Sayings St.Bern.(Hrl 2253)31 : In false wonyng is monnes lyf; When deþ draweþ is sharpe knyf, Do þe sone to shryue.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)7b/b : Assuetuto: wonynge [Cnt: Assuetudo: vsyng, customyng].
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)532 : Vonynge, of longe vsynge: consuetudo, assuefaccio.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)534 : Wunnynge, or vsynge of custome: Frequentacio.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)142a : Wonnynge: Assuefacio, consuessio.
4.
Error for pining(e ger. (c).
Associated quotations
- a1250 Ancr.(Nero A.14)172/23 : Al þet ich habbe iseid of flesshes wununge [Corp-C: pinsunge] nis nout uor ou, mine leoue sustren, þet oðerhwules þolieð more þen ich wolde.
5.
In surnames.
Associated quotations
- (1275) in Löfvenberg ME Local Surnames238 : Joh. de la Wonynge.
- (1275) in Sundby Dial.Wor.249 : Wominge.
- (c1285) in Sundby Dial.Wor.()249 : Woningge.